Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-01-09
KANSAS IN TIE CABINET,
Her Position and Rapidly Developing In
terests Entitle Her to Such
Recognition.

their loyalty to America. Kansas is
states of the south or raise her voice to
help the sugar cane growers of Louisi-
ana against the beet growers of France
and Germany, or help the wool growers
of Texas and California against the
flock masters of Australia and Africa,
and the cattle growers of the
west against the herds of
cattle on the Pampas plains of South
America and the wheat growers of the
northwest against the wheat of India;
the lumberman of the north and south
against the woods Of Canada. Kansas
has and will help the manufacturers of
the east against the mills of Europe and
the mines of America against the whole
world. God has here made a continent
and filed it full of natural resources
without counterpart, and we must fit
it for an earthly paradise.
Self preservation is the first law of ma
ture and of nations and includes the
right of self protection. We are in favor
of protecting America against the rest of
the world. This is true loyalty unai-
loyed. Free trade is an idol god, wor
SHIPPED by deluded people. True patri-
otism lifts US out of Kansas into Amer
lea, our beloved country here. We greet
the manufacturer and the oper
alive, the planter and the freed
man. These divers interests once
politically divided are being rap
idly united by the manufacturer moving
south and the cane and cotton districts
westward.
True loyalty never should have known
any political line-with tariff to pro-
tect the one or free trade to injure the
other-for while we have been losing
time and temper in differing, the Kaffir
and Australian has been increasing his
flocks of sheep to feed and cloth Us. The
South American his cattle ranges; Eng
land her provinces for wheat in British
India and on the plains of the Gauges,
increased her navies to control the mar
kets of the world, but thanks
be to the preservation Of
American industries, although
they have been crippled, they are not
destroyed Though we have lost many
million sheep in America, Kansas having
lost 1, 100. 600 during the last four years,
sacrificed on the alter of free trade at an
actual loss of over one million dollars,
Kansas has 100000 left, enough to re-
place them in the next four years with
the restoration of our former tariff.
We have just demonstrated the prac-
ticability of growing sugar in Kansas
with the experiment but half completed.
for while we get satisfactory results in
100 lbs. of sugar in a ton of cane, there
is yet another 100 lbs. to be realized by
the Kansas experiments. / learn that
Germany and France haye been paying
a bounty on beet sugar, the effect of
which was to injure our cane sugar in
dustry, but since they have heard of the
success of the diffusion process in Kan
sas they have begun the agitation of its
removal.
l recently visited the state silk station
at Peabody. They have ten acres of
mulberry of two years growth in a
thrifty condition, forty ounces of eggs
of the yellow variety of silk worms
well cared for, convenient cocoonery
with trays to care for thousand CO.
coons, a good engine and ten reels, with
room and power for three looms. As far
as | can see they have made success Of
growing and Keeling silk, which
the secretary informed me realized
them 20 per cent premium instead of 10
as previously reported it. They will
expect another appropriation of the leg
islature to complete and care for it, and
for general assistance to the beginner |
should distribute eggs and instruction to |
applicants in Kansas. The national in |
OF France at Montpelier has a
liberal appropriation annually. The |
Italian station at Padna receives large |
for silk experiments. !
only wish there was similar filature !
like the one at Peabody in every county
in Kansas.
While at Peabody l visited the cream
cry and the superintendent was just fig |
uring out the money he had paid out the |
past year for cream: it came to nearly |
$25 900, an average OF little over $24 /
clear profit to every COW MIXED. besides |
paying fair profit on the money invest |
ed in the creamery. What an immense |
wealth the cattle of Kansas represents. |
| asked if he had experienced any diff |
Guilty in running the creamery since he |
and lie said six years ago. |
when ne started, ten or twelve other |
creameries had started in different parts |
of the state; they had run well for |
time but the manufacture of oleomarga-
rine had deprecated the price of butter
so they quit. He said the house passed |
a bill taxing it ten cents and the senate .
cut it down to five cents and the presi-
dent down to two cents, but 1t ought to |
be five cents: then creamerles would |
prosper all over Kansas.
next visited pork raiser, and when
asked if there was any money IN it he
he showed me his bank book:-34 hogs
sold last May at $432.21: 81 hogs sold III
August at 1896. -: Sc hogs sold in Decem
Der at S452.76. In all. S1.21i.39; less Sc
on hand i'll January last worth $500, less
30 on hand now worth $500, leaving
S9i1. IS profit Pork culture will help
out Kansas, but we should pro-
vide some means for the eradica-
ton of cholera-it can be done
We are continually developing it in
some part of the country and before it is
wholly eradlcated III one place it Is
carried to a new one. The commissioner
Of agriculture is deserving just praise in
out pneumonia in cattle and
might as elfectUally remove hog cholera.
II is too great an industry in Kansas to
De overlooked.
If you will take up the history of
every nation or individual state. you
Will invariably find much time and
money has necessarily been spent finding
)ut the most profitable crop and manu-
lectures just suited to each particular
ocality. and the state which Is the most
wide awake in its Investigations is the
soonest to get these. Kansas is under
going this resolution in her agriculture.
From corn TO sugar. cotton and silk,
md of all the states in the union Kansas
needs an able representative in the de-