The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-30
AN ARTICLE ON THE IMMIGRATION
MOVEMENT, RAILROAD FARE
EXCURSION RATES.


sas papers please copy; all for the glory
of kansas.)
| To the Editor of the Eagle.
A harmless ''lunatical' enthusiast
called upon me and directed my atten-
ton to an article in the EAGLE headed
ga general immigration movement
needed in Kansas right now" He had
drawn the conclusion that did not read
the EAGLE and knew nothing about the
movement. He gave me an article to
deliver to the EAGLE. CLEANED over 1T
and said to him: Wherefore should l
risk my life or endanger my safety in
becoming Godfather to an attack on the
| immigration bureau, the newspapers OF
Kansas or the railroads. Get thee gone
thou Satan-I have trouble enough to
| find a publisher for the stuff | write;
| but if you desire me to do so, will hit
! the immigration movement several
sentences on my own account, and if
die-your conscience, if you have one
in your clothes, or 'pawn-ticket show
ing you have title to one, will not be
burdened by my demise"
The ministerial prayer movement in
our otherwise happy, peaceful and
bustling community might direct its at
tention to the immigration movement
and pray for an influx of prohibition
emigrants, SO that they would have a
majority in the ''ensooing" city election.
am Indifferent as to the politics or re-
ligion of the man who comes to Kansas
to go into business or to buy farm
home. The only thing 1 stipulate for is
that he will come and be forehanded
enough to push his business and become
thorough Kansan and add wealth to
Kansas: the grand aggregate, making
100, 900 people before January 1892, and
ten or twenty millions more wealth.
We Kansans, "spasm' periodically;
we are given to stopping over in finance,
politics, religion and immigration. "Ad
astra per aspera," seems to rule us. We
are in the Plutonian shadows, or the
seventh heaven, in the valley or on the
mountain; at the bottom of the ditch or
at the top of the hill: no halfway
ground for us. We are an india rubber
commonwealth. We have rebound in US.
Yesterday pauper5 and insolvents-the
object of eastern peoples contempt
Ishmailite of the United States. We
are today attracting attention through
out the United States by reason of our
Alliance, fasting and prayer"
and corn, oats and wheat
crop that bewilders traveller
and causes a smile to light the eye of
even believing friends.
Forty million bushels wheat.
One hundred million bushels corn.
Twenty-Five million bushels oats.
Just contemplate it. The entire cotton
crop of the south estimated at $500, 000,-
900 and Kansas corn, wheat and oats
alone, estimated at $50. 900, 900. or a
little over one-sixth of the southern
cotton crop.
As Fritz Schnitzler says, we have a
"banana" in these prairies, when we get
the land sold to farmers from the eastern
states.
[ am not farmer, land owner, real
estate dealer, or farm land Spectator,
but am citizen of Southern Kansas,
and my idea is, that while the ministers
are holding down the joints, and fasting
and praying, the rest of us ought to go
to work and stimulate the ''immigra-
ton movement"
The railroads are as much interested in
peopling our farms and opening up our
prairies as we can possibly be, but there
are certain railway rules that prevent
our roads granting us an immigration
rate. The interstate commercial paraly-
sis act prevents any one community
from "hogging" anything, unless the
community owns railroad official or
two who will cheat" the act and assist
the town; hence, the entire state must be
invited to any Immigration feast" any
one community gets up. Many places
pay no attention to this, and hence any
live place that gets "a move on it" has
to emulate the divine ruler who Grains
on the just as well as the unjust" If we
get up large immigration" rain all
enjoy the shower; therefore
the only thing to do is
to agitate the Question of
a state immigration movement and get
the rest of the state to join in and stake
our chances i'll the general sweepstakes
for immigrants who visit the state.
If any large number come and we fail,
or any other county fails to get a Just
share of the 'new home-seekers" then
all there is about it we are not worthy
of getting them. The thing for Sedg-
wick county to do is to go to work and
get up its own petition to the Trans
Missouri Passenger ASSOCIATION" and
send it in to the secretary and have
kurtz at Newton, Bent Murdoch and
Sheldan at ElDorado, Buck at Winfield,
EASILY at Hutchinson, StOtler at We'll
lington, Maffett at Anthony, Eaton at
Kingman and Lutte Axiline and Caruth-
ers at Medicine Lodge observe what we
are doing, they will 60 to pounding
their people to get up their petition and
send it in, and then some others will catch
on" and we will get a rate by August
and commence seeing excursion trains
coming 10 Kansas as in 1875 and 1876. |
There amt any royal (bacCaratl road
10 immigration. Ii takes some pound
ing" some blowing-but if we get down
TO our knitting" we can do it. We
have crops this year and all wa want is
to get people 10 come and see 'em. We
don't need anything but TO get the man
here. No statistics; all the man needs Is
his eves--he don't need any brains TO
figure on acres and bushels to the acre.
If we get this thing started in August
the threshing machines will deafen the !
outfit
All we need to 90 is have our ed |
itors go to pounding, get up our
petitions for one rate for exCur- |
sionists, send them up u James !
Smith, secretary of the Trans-Missouri |
Passenger association at Kansas City, |
Mo, and when he fixes date for our 1
send a committee up and ''elo- /