Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1890-01-26
LET US GO TO WORK.

| AOiiONi Is Itu Ill tiStC tS&hCik IL Oi1i toC
| lola Register, which for practical COM
mon sense and ungetoverabIe logic can
not but commend itself to every Kansan
| who reads it:
st stands written in the scriptures.
There is time for all things. That
means there is time to talk and time
to quit talking and work. We have had
our turn at the talk, here in Kansas.
We have expressed our opinion with
considerable freedom of the beef COM
bine which puts down and keeps down
the price of cattle and hogs. We have
stated our views about the policy of the
railroad companies In taking the lion
share of the profits on the corn and wheat
they carry to market. We have init
mated our disapprogal of the currency
contraction which has had its share IN
depressing prices all around. And we
have given congress very plainly to I'M
derstand what we expect 1t to do In the
premises. And now, men and brethren
let us quit talking and go to work.
The immigration convention which
has been in session in Wichita last week
is step in the right direction There
are million and a half of people IN
Kansas. Nobody would be crowded if
there were three millions. What would
we care for beef combines or greedy rail
roads Or contracted currency. We
have railroads and schools and churches
and good society. Let us make these
things known to the home-seekers.
Kansas used to be in the immigration
business from one years end to another.
Let us resume the business at the old
stand. There are still plenty of people
in the older states who want to go west
and Kansas has more attractions to offer
them now than she ever had. Let the
latch string be hung on the outside.
While this immigration work promises
the quickest returns there are a good
many other things we might turn our at
tention to, both in our collective and in
our individual capacity. Collectively, it
is time we were beginning to realize
that communities as well as individuals
may buy too many whistles and pay too
much for them. A great many of our
public investments have doubtless paid
well, and were wisely made. But too
many Kansas communities have been In
the habit of voting bonds to tie tin can
to the tail of every stray dog that came
around. 1t furnishes little diversion
and excitement at the time, doubtless,
but when the day of reckoning comes
there is nothing to laugh about. lndi-
vidually it is time we were getting down
to business principles. Not in farming
alone, but in every other business, we
have acted long enough on the theory
that all Kansas needed to laugh with a
harvest was to be tickled with hoe.
1t was pleasing fancy, but it hasn't
panned out as cold fact. Business sue
cess in Kansas means what business
success means elsewhere, and that is
prudence, economy, good management
and hard work. We should be satisfied
with the happy assurance that the con-
verse of this proposition is also true, that
prudence, economy, good management
and hard work Away mean business
success in Kansas.
Congress can help us very materially
if it does its duty and we hope and be-
lieve it WILL But after all mere legis-
lation cannot do everything. No 'be
it enacted" can help us half as much
as we can help ourselves. Let US go
to work."