The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1888-05-12
WAKE UP! WAKE UP!
A Tolling Appeal From The Secre'
tary of the Southwest Mis-
souri, immigration
SOcietV
TO the People To wake mp and
Buckle ON the Harness for
Earnest Work ina Ine grand
Causc of Progress and
Development.

The following is a clipping from a
Kansas paper of recent date. IL is
brief, but there is world of meaning
in it,
"Clay Center has sent five of its eiti
Zens east at IL salary OF 300 per month,
each, to woik up excursions and circu-
late advertising ua;tcr. Every excur-
siOnist who BUYS 81 900 worth of Clay
Center property has his car fare paid
Is il any onder that Kansas has had
Il phenomenal growth, when such lavish
expenditure and such startling. propo'
sitions are made2 When it is remem
bered that Clay Center il Il small city
in northeastern Kansas, aud that these
five citizens, costing that town 500 per
mouth and expenses beside big out
lay for the literature they are SO dis
tributing, the secret of the marvellous
| influx of population and money into
| that country becomes apparent.
When a Kansas man is met up with
on train or in hotel, he is ever
ready TO speak good word tor his
town or county, and the stranger who
steps off Oh the platform in Kansas
| town is sure to have many courteous
offers to show him around aud reveal
! to him the beauties and interests OF the
town, both present and prospective.
! But il is altogether different in Missou-
ri. Few people here think 10 speak of
their country to the stranger,and fewer
still take the pains TO invite his atien-
ton to the attractions of the respective
towns. Why is this? Is 1t because
Missouri is inferior in natural endOw-
! 10 har cio StafaGr (tQrtaInl u
not. Is il because we have no induce
ments to offer for the remunerative in,
vestment of capital? Most emphatic
ally no. Is it because our country is
teeming with population, and there is
10 room for others? or course not
Then, why is it that we are not sharing
in the golden harvest that is being
showered upon our neighbors!
The truth ia, Missouri has beer
traduced, slandered and villified for sc
long that her people have shown dis
position to meekly submit and let time
set them right before the world. They
have been so Overshadowed by tht
hireling boomers of lands belonging tt
vast corporations in the distant west
that amid the excessive laudation o
the beauties and riches of the L
Dorado toward the setting sun, thel
, have lost sight of the marvelOu
| resources with which the prodigal hant
} OF nature has endowed their own bles
, land. A modesty truly commendabl
, has kept our people from competing
: with the hireling sharks, whose gaud.
, publications filled with shameful, falls
f and misleading statements have foode'
the land.
4 But their gay circulars and prett
4 word painting can no longer lure tb
Il home seeker to the rainless aka
Il plains of the occident; and then, toe
G King Blizzard has asserted his freezin
c proclivities with such emphatic ferocit
S in the north and northwest as to dete
!, the most reckless from seeking home
/ within his rigid and treacherou
t domain. So the time has tnlly com
8 for US to wake up and 90 to worl
r. We should at once arouse us from ou
II long and self t-imposed somnolent stat
b. and with the accumulated vigor {
l. long quiesence spring to the forefroi
It of the march of progress.
Let every man constitute himself
committee of one TO herald abroad bot
G by word and letter the splendid n
1t SOURCES Vi OuT CounlIy, Wneio hoith'
drouth nor blizzard doth enter in
+ cut down and destroy, and where Ii
If cowboy and the red skin molesteth M
Il nor maketh afraid.
n The grand work now being prosecu
d ed by the society cannot be pushed
d the highest degree of efficiency by
d few men and by the contribution of
e small amount of money, but if "
/. would see industrial pursuits spring u
l. on every hand and every artery
II commerce beat and throb with quick
o ened viyor under the magic touch
: capital and labor, let every man pl
o his shoulder to the wheel and he'll
=. First let us talk each other up, land the
d with long pull aud strong pull All
IT pull altogether, we will inaugural
= and enjoy the very millennium OF cou
-, ! turrcial activity