Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-12-19
KANSAS AND her PROSPECTS.

KANSAS AND HEB PROSPECTS.
The outlook for the state Of Kansas
was never better than it is to-day. The
people of the east are again turning
their attention to it and soon again the
tide of immigration will set in, and
greater than ever before. This year
has again demonstrated the fertility OF
our soil and the diversified crops it will
produce. The many thousands of acres
that lie in primitive state will be
occupied in the natural course of things
It is only question of time. The first
to come will be the most lucky. There
never was time in the history of any
country when better bargains could be
found so plenteously.
It is not because people are tired OF
Kansas that so much land is for sale,
but because many are holding so much
more than they can use, and have awak-
ened to the fact that land was made to
farm and not to hoard. Many, too, had
little to buy and improve with, and nee
cessarily had to borrow of the eager
loan companies, and they have found
that it is much easier to get loan than
to pay it off. A loan can be obtained
in week that takes thrifty farmer
years to liquidate. Dame nature did
not contemplate that a man should till
the earth and draw therefrom more
than a good living and competency
for age. But the primitive idea was
that nature had provided land enough
to supply the natural wants of man
without usury. The idea that a man
can make ii living good and comfortable
from quarter section of ground and
enough of a residue to pay twenty or
twe-five per cent. of the actual value of
it every year to medium of exchange
loaners, was never contemplated in the
laws of nature. So 1t is that many
have concluded, and now there is as
great desire among borrowers to pay
off the loans as there ever was to make
them. Gilded ambition led them
astray from the old maxims of economy,
until every effort is being made to get
loose from tie unholy and unnatural
thraldom.
They propose to sell part of their pos
sessions. They will do it and profit by
their experience. This one thing is
strengthening the credit of Kansas to-
day to a wonderful extent.
The prospects for next year are most
flattering. The great fields of corn of
1889 will in the spring of 1890 be green
with waving oceans of wheat.
Prices are quite unsatisfactory. but
the work that has been done by the
farmers in measure cure many of
the existing troubles, and much more
speedily than many predict. A solid
body of men moving in one direction
against an unjust law or code, soon
revolutionize it. Politics in Kansas
are jnst in shape for it, because no
crowd or clique can run the state.
There may be some fellows who think
they can but they can't. All wrongs
must be made right.
Stock of all kinds is going into winter
quarters in good shape and with plenty
of provender.
The natafaf ceurseof Aanafactur
is westward. Kansas will reap the
first fruits, and the day is near at hand
when Il large percentage of her farm
products will find a market at home.
and west and south of us. Our port
will be on the gulf, and we will pay less
to export and import. The coal. iron
and timber of the Rocky range must
soon occupy the attention of the world.
On account of our position we must
naturally grow in population and
wealth, until we excel Illinois or Ohio.
Manufactures are locating every day
in Kansas. They are bound to come.
Kansas is entering ON an era of pros
perity that excells its past, marvellous
as it has sbeen.-Hutchinson Times.