The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1888-04-21
GRAND OLD MISSOURI.

GRAND OLD MISSOURI.
That Missouri is an empire within
itself, with a range Of resources and
possible industries far excelling those
of any other state in the union, has for
a great while been recognized by the
obssrvant.
That its character has been traduCed
and it's people slandered beyond the
point of virtuons endurance is a no less
palpable fact.
That i'll consequence of the misrep-
RESERVATIONS of designing enemies it has
not kept pace it'll the march of pro
gress rs we'll as we could wish Is too
apparent to be successfully controvert-
ed. But the day of reckoning, long
deferred, seems to have come at last.
The immigration convention, held at
Clinton, Henry county. on the 23rd day
OF February, to devise ways and means
10 place Missouri, its people and re-
sources, in their proper light before the
world, was the first concerted and de-
termined effort yet made in that line.
This convention was o as some sup
pose, to induce the influx Of any ard
all kinds Of people among us, but a
body Of representative M~issourians,
assembled to consult as to the best
mean to employ In indicating the
state aud it's people, aud in setting be-
fore tho world its unparalleled resour-
ces, and L invite the laborcr,
the manufacturer, the capitalist
aud the better class of home-
seekers to come among us aud invest
their capital in paying enterprises.
That effort was not u spasmodic one;
the time was fully ripe tor such a
movement; aud 1t is being followed up
in q business-like way by q large
Number Of the representative business
men OF the southwestern part Of the
state.
The constitution and bylaws Of the
Southwest Missouri Immigration
Society, formed at that convention,
provide that any county, south Of the
of the Osage, may become a member of
the society by paying into the treasury
u sum not to exceed one cent on the
one hundred dollars of its assessed
value. A great many counties have
already fallen into line and the work is
being vigorously pushed. Great
benefit will certainly accrue to the
counties going into the organization,
and a now era of prosperity will be
inaugurated by the successful prose-
cntion of the work. The time, too,
seems very opportune. The hired
boomers of rich corporations have for
years been victimizing the brain and
Drawn of the east by luring them TO
the purchase of worthless properties
around the foot hills of the Rockies. !
There the careful hoardings of thoHs.
ands OF good people have tor years
been poured out like water, and their
best energies have been AZ ent in the
vain attempt to make the evidences
blossom as the ross." But the tidal
wave OF deception is now over, and
the honest investor can no longer be
the victih of the land speoula-
The vast and varied Of
Missouri, that show tor themselves,
out in bold aud striking contrast
with the spurious aupposititious re-
sources OF the western Ell Doradoes
that have been relegated 10 the limbo of
exploded fallacies. The genuine re-
of Missouri need only 10 be
brought TO the notice Of tho investor to
secure the remuneratIve employment
Of his capital. The blizzard.strickeu
of the north and northwest
are now sending forth good men to
seek homes IN the less hazardous cline
Of southwest Missouri, where storms
are fewer aud resources more album
liant. These considerations render the
move eminently oDportune, aud it will
result in adding millions Of wealth and
of population to the counties
engaging In the enterprise.