Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-10-03
THE YEAR OF JUBILEE.

follow, and Kansas may we'll throw
of her sackcloth and ashes and re-
joice as she has never rejoiced before.
Thanksgiving proclamations may be
issued next November with the as
surance that the custom will he OBJ
served, not as a mere form, with cant
and hypocrisy, but with feeling that
we really have something to thank
God for; not with hungry visage,
socklcss feet and empty stomachs, but
with full hearts. full bellies aud posi-
tive assurance that the dark clouds Of
misfortune that have been lowering
over our state are breaking away to
return again nevermore.
Prot. Shows chinchbug extermina-
tor has had something TO do with our
prosperity and Dryenforth's rain
making machine has infused new Wig
or in our friends ont west, but we owe
a good deal to providence and the
Kansas farmers who stayed at home
and put in crop and tended that crop
while some of the distinguished rep
resentatives of the people were dining
and winning in eastern banquet halls
defaming and slanderiug the state that
put them in power.
If our farmers had followed mother
Leases advice, raising more hell than
wheat, the crop might have been
abundant, and with plenty of fiat
money in circulation would no doubt
find market, but with the present
financial depression and short Eu-
ropean grain crop there is no question
but that wheat is the better crop this
year. We always believed in raising
hell at the proper time and place, but
the average Kansas farmer is better
qualified to raise grain and the pro-
duct is better adapted to his wants
just at this time.
In view of the unprecedented har-
vest and the brilliant prospects for the
future many counties and cities in
Kansas arc advertising their advan-
tages and resources abroad, and the
movement is a very commendable one,
worthy of imitation by the people Of
Cherokee county and Baxter Springs
especially. No county in the state can
make better showing, but as yet no
effort has been made TO advertise our
superior advantages or turn the tide
of emigration this way. Good i'm
proved farms in Cherokee county can
be purchased today cheaper than the
umproductive hardpan lands of Okla
homa, but so long as the outside world
is kept in ignorance the rush to Okla
homa and the Cherokee strip will
continue and Cherokee county, Kan
sas, will lie kept in the background.
If the farmers, politicians and BUSH
ness men would form associations for
the purpose of advertising our superior
advantages instead of spending their
time and money in organizing politi-
cal societies whose sole and only pur.
pose is to undermine society and bring
discredit upon themselves and upon
the state, VIC would soon find buyers
for our lands and capital to run our
business.
If our county papers, instead oil
filling their columns with vitupera-
tive ISLANDERS and unwholesome abuse
of one another, would devote more
space to the natural resources and un.
developed wealth of Cherokee county,
their calculations would be Increased
and their power to do good enhanced
in tenfold degree.
The News has but little space TO de-
vote to politics, but all our columns
are open for anything that will adj
vance the interests of our own people
We would like TO see an ASSOCIATION
comnosed of business men and farm
ers whose chief aim would be the dis
semination of facts regarding our city
and county, and although the effects
of such movement might not be fell
Immediately the final results will wei
repay The time and trouble. "Cas
your bread upon the waters aud ]
will return 10 you after many days
1t may be badly. watersoaked, but !
will return. Do not forget that adj