Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-12-18
THE KANSAS IMMIGRATION BUREAU,
To the Editor of the Eagle.

IDEAS seem 10 De the CledIeSI Oh tliueS
he has never studied about. it would
seem that we can take the same rank in
immigration that Fennimore Cooper
did in ''Injun tales "
We have some old fashioned ideas on
this, as we do on most things; that is,
that nothing comes without labor, or to
put it differently, that the results OF
efforts that cost nothing, either IN time,
money or brains, do not prove to be
blessings but curses. e., everything Is
growth-frst seed then plant, next
bud, followed by blossom and succeeded
by fruit.
The Kansas immigration Bureau has
commenced to SOW seed. Whether the
seed will, as in the parable, fall on
stony ground, sprout and wither and die;
be but spasmodic effort, enthusiastic III
beginning and die before results can come.
or whether it will fall on ground that
will nurse it and patiently care for 1t
and wait for harvest as the farmer
waits from spring to fall, only time can
prove, and we believe that the news
papers of Kansas hold the success or
failure of this "Kansas immigration"
movement within their grasp and the
measure of the beneficial results VIII be
proportional to the amount of laborlouS
effort put forth by the Kansas editor.
The movement on foot properly en-
braces the state of Kansas, and loses
sight OF any locality to be particularly
benefited by it, and though some affect
to believe that one place over others Is
to be specially favored, we do not believe
that any such result VIII follow, except
as the people of the state will it by utter
neglect of proving the worth OF each
community and carelessness IN the
movement.
The movement should be character
lied by breadth IN the make up OF the
executive committee, and each city and
county should take hold in such way
that if the Individual man gives time,
the city and county Individual will give
the expense money, and if the expense
money can not be provided in the way
we outline it, the movement will degen-
crate into an individual real estate agent
scheme or be worthless to the state at
| large.
The railroads are favorable if the
movement means q general one over the
state, unfavorable if it is to be local IN
character or individual in design. The
Union Pacific Will take care of counties
on its lines, the Santa Fe on its lines, the
Frisco and its connections on its lines,
the Rock Island on its branches and the
Missouri Pacific on its lines. These
railways each run into country where
distinct excursions can be made, and
though it may look wild and vision
ary we believe that it is feasible to SO
handle this matter, working to definite
end, that we can start an excursion from
! the east en- given date and have the
trains made up at Kansas City, Mo-, and
! st. Louis, Mo-, and have dozen excur-
/ sion TRAINS crossing Kansas prairie on
the same day, with at least seven thou
sand homeseekers aboard. And it may
be repeated, and the result will be a
thrifty new blood settlement, the sale of
old farms and the opening OF new ones.
! We want farmers and capital: we
want to prove that we possess advant-
! ages that will enable men TO come to us
and gain competence if not fortune.
/ We believe that every county IN Kan
sas can make its arrangements and meet
at Wichita on January 13, 1890, or some
other date to be named, and then having
agreed on date for the grand
! Kansas excursion, each locality by its
representatives could send its agents east,
! to that part of the east selected by it,
and arrange for the date selected and the
executive committee could see to the
rate and the time.
1t does not require as much brain as it
does labor to bring the results at which
we aim.
There is not a county in Kansas that
cannot get up an eastern excursion II 1t
will take the time, labor and money, but
such a movement will be local and al
most unheard of; but if every Kansas
county will work in harmony and
| through a state organization and series
of excursions which will embrace every
| line of railroad on a given date the news
papers of every state in the east Will be
| filled with articles for at least month
on some phase of Kansas, and these ag-
gregated newspaper clippings concerning
each locality will bring rich results.
Our towns, farms, lands, crops and
stock will all be noted, and each county
| that has an industry will gain more
notice from such an excursion than 1t
can now get from years of advertising.
The east has over population and sur
plus capital. To get rid of the one and
invest the other is the problem it is try
| ing to solve, and if we will we can as
sist them in its salvation. To convince a
man of money that we can give him safe
| investment by correspondence or by
newspapers is slow work if not hopeless,
! but if we can get the man here we can
enlist him by his own seltishness.
There is not county in Kansas but
| has investments that will bring good re-
turn if it can get men to come and look
at them. If capitalists can view these
| things or see them with eyes unpreju-
| diced we can accomplish the results.
| There are two ways TO gain mans con-
fidence; one by letting him see, one by
| learning from those IN Whom he has con-
fidence.
This is understood by US alive hear
of a place. and read Of 1t and pay no
| heed-but a neighbour goes there. re-
| turns. sells out makes arrangements to
remove to the place or sends money for
investment Thisls practical advertise
ment of a place that breeds desite in
others to go and see and invest. \ man
comes to Kansas and returns east; in the
course OF a month he will converse with
from one hundred to one thousand peo-
pie and our fame is that of a speaking
| advertisement of one thousand men,
more or less, hence if we can get five
thousand men or more here on one grand
excursion the result will be that our
fame will spread IN the same ratio when
they return east, and we will have a
hundred thousand people in the east at
one time all talking Kansas.
Excursions from the east have been
purely local. Let US have a state ex-
cursion. two hundred car loads coming