Wichita eagle., 1889-12-15
! WISE MOVEMENT FOR KANSAS

| To the Editor of the Eagle
For number of months state immi
| grafton movement has been maturing.
This organization will represent all parts
| of the state alike, and the benefit de.
rived from it will be in proportion to the
amount of interest each locality takes in
the matter. Through united effort on
the part of the whole state, through an
immigration bureau of a hundred direc.
| tors, selected from the best men in all
parts of the state, the tide of immigra-
| ton can be started this way. The mem
bers of this bureau in all parts of the
state have work increasingly to perfect
| organization of the character that could
go before the railroad passenger asso-
citation and present their claims with
| some degree of certainty of being favor
ably entertained by them. And as will
be seen by the sub joined letters their eff
forts have been rewarded by an invita-
ton to meet the association at Omaha,
December 10, and discuss all matters
pertaining to the measure. The associ-
alton are in receipt of many other
letters of importance which can be read
at a convention that should be held soon,
and it is hoped that every county
in the state will be represented at this
convention by one or more delegates.
Some of the counties have already or
gained through meeting called by the
mayor and county commissioners, and
will send a delegate to such meeting.
Those who have not can do so by called
meeting in the early part of the month
and select delegate for such con-
vention
This association should have the COM
bined sentiment of the state, and to get
a cooperation of the counties in this
immigration movement it is important
that each county should send representa-
tives to this convention, where perma-
nent arrangements can also be made for
a representation, so that they may get
their share of the immigration.
The Trans-M Missouri The Trans-Missouri
Passenger Association. Freight Association.
OFFICE OF CHAIRMAN.
Room Cos Keith & Perry Building, Ninth and Walnut
streets
W. W. FINLEY, Chairman. Kansas City Mo.
OMAHA, Dec. 10. 1889.
Chairman Committee Kansas Bureau of Immigra-
ton. City.
Dear Sir: Upon request of the Kansas
bureau of immigration the meeting of
general passenger agents has given the
matter full and careful consideration to-
day.
1t was shown that the various railroads
running through and into the state of
Kansas have constantly in their employ,
at large expense. a full corps of men in the
east, an important part of whose duty it is
to work up business and immigration for
the state of Kansas; and they each
have also organized thorough and efficient
land departments which widely distribute
large quantities of matter advertising the
resources of Kansas, and employ all other
means found useful for that object.
For the use of their large force of regu-
lar travelling employees the lines already
tax the courtesy of eastern lines for nee
esSary transportation.
In view of these facts, therefore, the
members of this association will be glad
to lend all assistance possible in distribut-
ing such advertising matter as your
bureau will kindly furnish them and to
this end cheerfully tender the assistance
of their land and passenger agents. With
you continue the work you have planned,
putting into the eastern field as many
men as you can afford to at tariff rates,
the results will be highly satisfactory to
you and to all interested. as. so far as re-
ported, your state is the only one pushing
Its claims III the methods you have
adopted
Trusting you will be agreeable to the
plan of cooperation suggested above, l
am, Yours truly,
w. W. FINLEY, Chairman.
The importance Of this movement is
evident to every thinking man in Kan
Sas. We can look for the railroads to
meet us half way, and we should take
positive step to arrest the tide Of immi-
grafton that is sweeping past us in all
directions and disregarding the fact that
they are going past the best state in the
union and one that is singular in the
fact that it is capable of raising enough
in any one year to last it three. Then
what we want is three times as many
people to consume what we raise. A
state that raises one hundred bushels of
corn on an acre. squashes that weigh
one hundred and fifty pounds each and
wheat fifty bushels to the acre, such a |
state needs constant tide of new peo- |
ole coming in to take care Of her rap
dly developing interests, and let us move
with solid front and show the eastern !
and buyer that we have the goods and |
he prices and we shall see Kansas
warming with new people. There are no
in the way of an immipra-
ion to Kansas that the right kind of an
association on the part of the whole
tate cannot control. 1t is important
hat this should be state organization
IS strong as possible, and each section
hould be well represented. The
of the railroads will
depend entirely upon the strength of
his organization. The impracticabihty of
he railroads departing from regular
ules and rates at the demand OF small
is evident at glance, as it
My ends in interminable discord. At
he same time we have every assurance
# their friendship and earnest desire to
when there is strength enough
'ehind movement to recommend itself
o the public and demonstrate the fair
less of policy that will satisfy the peo-
lie. A convention representing all parts
# Kansas would probably result in
dopting plan by which the sale of
property in Kansas would relieve the
purchaser of such property of the ex-
'ense of transportation by deducting the