The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1890-09-25
AMERICAN KANSAS.


Tho Prairie state Assimiiates Foreixhefe
With Surprising Rapidly.
Every one In the first days welcomed
the people from abroaa. The Free
DOM people were certatnthat Germans,
Hungarians and Poles would be on their
side, and SO 1t turned out. Since those
days the gates have been open. The
Germans have come in, but have not as
such started any distinctively German
communities. The Swedes have opened
their farms and built their homes in
Saline, Mcpherson and Republic Conn-
ties The French have started little
colonies in Franklin, Chase and Marion,
and there is village of Neuchatel in
Nemaha, which betokens French or
Swiss people about; and there are hun.
dreds OF French-Canadians in Cloud
County, and there are Welsh In Usage
and Lyon, and sprinkling Of Italians
in Usage, and thousands of settlers from
Russia in Mcpherson, Harvey, Marion
and Butler, and others of different re-
ligion In Ellis. Beside in Rawlins there
are people from Gaficia, who speak Ger
man, hut are usually called lfungarians.
Looking over this collection OF tongues
and peoples hasty observer might
conclude that Kansas was 'catch-all,"
and one of those Americans who de-
prives himself OF all the comforts at
tached to his birthright by soaring
himself about the foreign inroad. !"
might be ready to give up the ship
Yet, after all, Kansas is very Amer
lean country. :
The reason that the '.Meliean man, "
as our Chinese visitors call him. is the
ruling figure in Kansas is because there
is good deal the most OF him, and be-
cause the American spirit fuses all the
materials that are cast into the Kansas
crucible. Whoever stays in Kansas
must become Kansan, and that means
an American of the most advanced type.
| 1t is IN the air.
The Kansas citizen who loves to
T frighten himself and, II possible, alarm
the neighborhood, was suffering two or
three years ago from apprehensions that
the soil OF Kansas would be absorbed
by 3.baronse of British extraction.
| 'baron," who bore the not very noble
name Of Scully, and who was reported
q resident of London, was represented
to have boughta large portion of Marion
and Butler Countless and as reducing
the peasantry of that 'on to a con-
diten worthy Of the worst days Of Ire.
land. The Legislature was fbesought to
interfere as against aliens who might
buy Kansas land in quantity, but SC
many kansans were found who had land
to sell to aliens that the Legislation
called for was not forthcoming. The
alarm has since subsidized.
In Kansas what has been discovered
in the course of ia years OF free gov
eminent has been and is being put in
practice. 1t works we'll for native and
foreign born. All the nationalities have
| been called in to work on the job Or
page 703 of Wilder's annals is found
this note:
Kansas is great because cosmopolitan. o.
the officers of sthe city of venwortl
George Ummethun, the mayor, was Ger
man; Colonel Moonlight, the city mars al
q Scotohman; Con Cartan. the welghmaster
is an Irishman; Christian Bsck, the stree
| commissioner, Dane; Or. Victor Biart, the
city physician, a Frenchmnn. OF the coun
4 cilmen elected S. r. Burdett IL an English
man; NJ. A. Wohlfstrom, an AlsatIan; Johf
OBaren and. owen Duffy Irishmen, ant
Martin Smith Prussian.
What is coming is plainly to be seen
They have taken to raising the Amer
lean flag on the school house and keep
ing it flying from sunrise to sunset, like
a garrison flag That is what young
Kansas thinks aboutit Flag waves t,
flag across the prairie, stripe reveals
itself to stripe, and star answers to star
The fathers and mothers may hav,
gathered from the ends OF the earth, tn,
children are OF Kansas Kansan. In tn,
heart Of America shall blossom the per
feet flower OF patriotism.-N L
Prentis, in Kansas CITY Star.