Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-12-25
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below us that challenges the attention OF
homeseekers and as Nebraska and Kan
sas seduced the citizens of Iowa, Illinois,
Indiana and Ohio to abandon homes and
seek others on our soil. we have no guar
anty that the new field lying south of us
| will not rob us of our people
| We have forked problem before us
to hold what we have and invade the
| east for million people.
The good old rule,
The simple plan,
That he shall take who has the power,
And he shall keep who can,"
applies to Kansas, and we must bend
every nerve to make the year 1890 a
| milestone in achievements as well as
date.
There must be unity of thought, a
harmony of action. deliberate common
purpose to add people to every county in
Kansas; to bring capital to every county:
to add taxable millions to the tax-rolls,
and bring prosperity to the entire state
To accomplish our work will cost time,
money, labor, brain and untiring indus
try, but the successful issue of the under
taking will be wealth to us all; glory,
honor and renown to the state. Is it not
worth the hazard!
We Kansans are fanatics; conceived
as fanatics, born, nursed, Graded and
reared as fanatics. Denominated fanat-
les on slavery, free schools and prohibit
ton, let us accept the attempted slur,
wear it as badge of state citizenship.
Let us become fanatics on the question
Of state immigration. Our advanced
ideas on all questions modern in politics
has advertised us. To this "fanaticism"
we are debtors to fame, if not prosper
ity. 1t is great characteristic resource,
coevil with birth, and continued and
strengthened with age. Let us accept it
as a tribute to the progressive genius
of people who decide issues by intui-
ton, to whom conviction, coming with
the celebrity of lightning, is at once Sue
ceeded by thunderbolt of public opin-
ion that is heard throughout the educated
world.
If we succeed in this undertaking we
must get in earnest. We can arouse all
cur people if we set at 1t. There never
was a rhinoceros hide SO thick but it
will eventually feel the pounding of
public sentiment on any question, and
the newspaper drubbing will quicken and
bring to life every dormant place in the
state and arouse its ambition. We adj
NIT that crops are low, stock depre-
ciated, business stagnant, immigration
not impelletl, but almost stopped; yet
there is remedy and that remedy is
concert Of action which will. if we
work, result in the grandest excursion
that ever left the east for Kansas.
We can name date and have ten ex-
cursion trains on Kansas prairies at
no
over the Rock Island, two over the
Missouri Pacific, two over the Union
Pacific and one over the Frisco.
The agents sent east can have
the line they are to work for
marked out and almost every mile of
Kansas will have an excursion train on
the same date.
The undertaking will be the biggest
thing for us we ever tried, and if we sell
the farms the farms will bring capital
and will repeat the success of 1884, 1885
and 1885.
One hundred new farmers to each
county in the state means at least $780,
900 to be spent amongst merchants and
dealers in material: means at least an
aggregated sum of 100000, 900 and over
80, 600 people, and if we fail to go at this
in earnest we deserve financial depression
and loss of people. The last year we
accomplished nothing. The general de-
preston has made us low spirited and
nerveless. We have builded cities for
people and have neglected the one great
source of all our wealth. We must for
get the city, and boom the farm and
its success will boom the town.
Let us adopt the motto, Harmony,
unity, strength, success" and prove our
faith in Kansas by laborious, Jealous, I'M
firing industry.
There should be a representative from
every county in Kansas at this organiza-
ion and the newspapers should urge it |
upon their people, ''KANzAN."