Wichita eagle., 1888-12-06

better than Oklahoma in thousand and
one things, prominent among which will
be the advantages of already established
social, religious, educational and bust
ness facilities, from which he finds it i'm
possible to go too far. In this the wife
and children will not be the least i'm
portant factors, inducing the Oklahoma
seeker to become fellow of our Kansan
farmers and tradesmen.
The Kansan, who has been in turn
Iennesseean, a southern Illinoian, MIS-
sourlan and a Kansan in successive
periods and whose occupation will be
gone, only when there is no more land
to ''Drove up" will no doubt go to Okla
homa, but his place will be filed by the
sturdy farmers and enterprising new
corners from the more easterly states
who have, if men of mature years come
west to raise the families where they can
all have opportunities, or if young men,
have come to grow up with the coun-
try"
For number Of years Kansas, and
particularly Southern Kansas, viii have
a market peculiarly her own, to which
she can and will dispose of her products,
until the new-made country shall, by
the measured steps of agricultural devel-
opment, attain that state of cultivation
necessary to supply her own needs. In
the meantime the Kansas farmer may
grow IN wealth and independence. Such
an event as the opening of Oklahoma
will bring to our doors a class of
consumers of our produce and buyers
for our wares and merchandise as has
not in point of wealth, enterprise and
sincerity Of purpose ever settled any new
country. In a few short years, instead
Of the now cherished retreat for the van
dial and the outlaw, the name of the In
dian Territory will have had the horri-
bic blood stains of crime, which now
tarnish its name, entirely removed,
and instead the name of Okla
homa as synonym of good
order and peace will rival that of our
own Kansas.
One other great benefit to Kansas will
be of climatic character. As the up
turning of the hard baked buffalo grass
sod IN Southern Kansas has tempered
the growing seasons of Northern Kan
sas just SO will similar causes applisd in
the Indian Territory produce correspond
ing results III Southern Kansas.
The opening to settlement of Oklaho-
ma Will no more injure Kansas than has
the settlement of eastern Colorado. On
the contrary it will start anew the tide
of immigration in this direction and will
give Kansas a well deserved opportunity
of being seen as she is and not imagined
as she is not.
| note with pleasure that there are
many papers in this state that are begin
ming to realize the business importance
of the opening of the new territory, and
at the same time take a common sense
view of the situation, unblinded by silly
prejudice that possibly some other city
or cities in Kansas may be able to do
what their own cities can never hope for.
The following is from the Mcpherson
Freeman:
Opened to settlement the territory would
prove a greater incentive for drawing i'm
migration than we can offer in Kansas for
some time. and we will reap share of the
benefits. Besides, some city will build up
IN central Kansas as the initial point for
the roads that will build to the gulf, and
such city may become the commercial me-
tropolis for this part of the state. We
See, therefore, no detriment to Kansas in
the opening of Oklahoma. q.