River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-08-14
lola. Kansas.

EDnoR JOURNAL: Being sojourner
for 'but a day or two here, l
thonght perhaps your readers might be
interested in what northern person
sees of southern matters.
On leaving the beautiful city,
named after the mighty Indian chief.
tian Red Wing, Aug. LIST, we proceed
ed slowly up the Cannon Valley by a
torturous route on an equally tortur
GUS train to Waterville, where we
we're transferred to one of the palatial
.'rec,lning chair cars" of the famous
Albert Lea route, enroute for Kansas
City. All that afternoon we suffered
intensely from dust and smoke.
Soon after we crossed the Iowa line,
marked change was pereeptable in
the rural districts, large tracts of
rustling corn taking the place of the
waving wheatiields of Minnesota. But
when we came into Missouri the
Kaleidoscope views again changed.
Here shiftlessness seems to sit en-
throned. In conversation with gen.
tleman regarding this people, he said
that many of those who live in shan
ties that northern man would not
consider fit FOX his hogs to occupy.
were worth SIC, 900, and upwards, but
never having had any better dwellings
they are perfectly satisfied with their
present inconvenienees.
As soon as we enter Kansas, the
scene again changes. Here there is
an exhibition of thrift akin to that of
more northern climes-said by some
to be attributed, principally, to re-
publican administration. We have
our private opinion, but will with
hold it's expression for the present.
The state has suffered materially on
account of lack of rain, but of late,
copious showers have refreshed the
thirsty soil, and the corn crop "a prin-
cipal production) win be largely i'm
proved.
BY the way, Mr.. Editor, one of the
things to which we looked forward
with special interest in coming to
this prohibition state was to see for
ourselves if the assertion so often
tlaunted in our face at home, viz,
prohibition doesn't prohibit in
Kansas was true or false. With
this in view, we will come to particu'
lars. Perhaps it will be well to begin
az Kansas City. Mo. AS your readers
doubtless know, there is also a Kansas
City Just across the line from its Mis-.
souri, namesake. Verify, a stranger may
KIN " when he is in Missouri and when
he is in Kansas, for the Missouri ga
loon comes to the very boundary line
of the state, and from there on tie sa
loonist has a hard time to carry or
his trade of destruction; in fact, dur
ing the several days we remained 4
! the two cities, we did not have th'
privilege of even once seeing 8 pu6li'
lor priyate) saloon where intoxicant!
were sold in Kansas City, Kan. Ever
the "original package" man fare
poorly there notwithstanding he ha
the decision of the Z. 5. Suprem
| Court at his back. If the o. p. mai
| fails here 70 have his own way full.
what must it be where his rich frien'
the brewer is not so near to assist.
The .. p. agent of a large liquO
house recently came to this lola
usually quiet city of some 5000 inhah
itants TO set up business. lie succeed
ed in securing a room at $50 pc
month, worth about $40 per month
and started in. The people held a
indignation meeting and passed reso
buttons eondemming the original PACK