Wichita eagle., 1889-10-27
HuRRAH FOR KANSAS

From the Kansas City Star.
Kansas goes into winter quarters this
year in splendid shape. The Oldest set
tier doesn't remember a time when
everybody in the state was so ''full
handed" and well fixed. The wolves
will have to stay out on the prairie; there
is no room for them around the door
yards. The corn cribs are bursting; the
wheat bins are full: cellar and cave are
stored with fruits and vegetables, and
the barns are piled full up to the caves
with provender for horses and cattle.
No farmer who is not too lazy to go to
mill need see the bottom of the flour
barrel for the next year. The storeroom
will be full unless shiftlessness keeps it
empty. There will be Kansas sugar in
the pantry, Kansas cheese in the larder
and the products of Kansas canning es-
Establishments on the shelves. There will
be not only an abundance to eat, but
plenty to wear. There will be both food
and raiment. The women will all have
new dresses, and the men new overcoats.
In addition to the necessaries of life the
people are venturing on a few little lux
uries which will beautify their homes
and will give to life a brighter
meaning. The careful little econo-
mics, which become pathetic when
they verge too closely upon pen
ury, have been relaxed, and, with the
return of plenty, have given place to
freer exercise of taste and inclination
outside of the hard lines of actual neces-
sity. Books and periodicals will beguile
the winter evenings and satisfy the in
satiate Kansas thirst for reading.
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Kansas was never so cheering as now.
The borrowers have largely liquldated
their interest accounts, and in many in
stances have lifted the mortgages repre-
senting their Indebtedness. The tenn
ing harvest of this year has been followed
by promises of another season of equal
plenty. The later rains which have
fallen all over Kansas have given a start
to the wheat which places it in fine con-
dition for passing unframed through
the winter. The acreage has been enor-
mously increased, and if all of the con-
ditions are favorable to the maturing of
the crop, it is estimated that Kansas will
head the procession next year with
fifty million bushels of wheat.
Another good season will practically lift
the state out of debt and place it upon a
free financial footing. 1t will then be-
gin to accumulate and take on solid
character which will invite an increased
investment of capital.
Another thing which makes the pros
pect SO cheering for Kansas is the fact
that she is finally learning to properly
utillye her resources. With all the
abundance of the present season, less
stuff has gone to waste in Kansas than
in any year of prosderity which has ever
known. The products of the orchard
and garden which have hitherto been
permitted to rot upon the ground have
been canned and dried and converted
into source of profit.
The people have also begun to realize
that they possess an abundant source of
wealth in the natural grasses which
cover the pralries, and the successful
operation of creameries all over the state
has forced this conviction deeper
into their minds. In short,
Kansas is learning the value Of many
things which she has neglected in the
past, and is beginning to pick up what
has heretofore been carelessly trodden
under foot. All that the people of that
state need to do is to help themselves.
The layout is there if they will only i'm
prove it. The treasure is at hand if they
will only reach out for it. The men and
women who have stayed with Kansas
are in position this fall to commiserate
the people who grew fainthearted when
misfortune came and left it. 1t is he
who fights to the finish who wins the
battle. Every state in the union and
every country under the sky, however
favored, has its reverses and its ups and
downs. Kansas is no exception TO this
rule, but it is singular in the fact that
one year of prosperity makes up for
three of failure. Kansas will do to swear
by, and the man who pins his faith to its
future destiny will never have any cause
to repent his action.