The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-28
KANSANs PROUD OF KANSAS.

Why should we not be? 1t is beauti-
full land. 1t is fertile soil. 1t is a
healthful climate. 1t is peOpled largely
by Americans, and it is destined to be-
come the earliest exemplar of what the
American of the future will be when the
foreign element is absorbed and we be-
come a homogeneous people. So if we
are proud to be Americans our destiny is
proud one. The geographical and top
ographical position of Kansas is an I'M
answerable argument in favor of its
healthfulness. so the future Kansan will
not lack vigor and strength Of body.
Ourschildren are living evidences of that.
Education is not lacking, but, ON the con-
trary, it can be obtained at as little cost
in this state as in New England and of as
high grade. This is true. if not gen.
orally acknowledged. The climate is
not only invigorating, but favors Ion
gevity. All old people immigrating to
Kansas seem to take fresh hold of life,
so on these high and breezy prairieS,
both in vigor and expectation" of life.
Then the death rate here is the lowest in
the United States. Healthy food is
cheaper here, resulting in the highest
possible nourishment of our people.
Good food, good air, pure water and in
telligent, temperate living combine to
the races of men, as well as the
breed of inferior animals. And at the
time we may look for the typical Amer
lean in Kansas, we may expect to find
him ofl splendid physique, intelligent,
and man who, loving liberty, will do
and dare for the right, and, if need be,
die for it. The descendants of one
hundred thousand veterans of our civil
war, who made their homes in Kansas,
will inherit from them those qualities of
courage and fortitude possessed by those
selected men of the nation, from whom
they are decended, and from that source,
as well as from the pioneers of the state,
who were not lacking in the same quail
ties, who in high courage and fortitude.
with an intelligent mind in a sound
body, have no superior, and whose great
qualities will enable them to take and
maintain high place in the grandest
nation of the earth. Why should we
not then be groud that we are Kausans?
We are in season and out of season.
except when we reflect upon the estima-
ton of our friends in neighboring states,
who judge of us largely by our cranks.
They never stop to consider that our be-
loved cranks, whose mission estimated
by results, is solely to make our state
ridiculous in the eyes of our neighbors,
are really the best evidence of our love
of liberty and fair play. charity and pity,
and we occupy the unique position of
being the only commonwealth in the
nation where he can exist, and be at
large, where he can sting the bosom that
cherishes him and enjoy public office at
the hands of the old crowd.
If there be any good reason why we
are not proud of our state without reser-
Walton, it must be our pet cranks. Let
us cease then to pet them, and relegate
them to the limited sphere of their use
fulness. In this part of the state he has
no useful place; our affairs in Wichita
do not need his advice or direction. He
is as fatal To business affairs as he is in
the moral field. lacking in sympathy
with the foihles that are only human, he
exerts no influence that benefits the
people. So Wichita can spare him and
prosper.
We are happy in the belief that he is
not numerous among US, and that he is
growing beautifully less: and, as he