The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1892-03-24
SIGNS OF THE TIMES.

The predictions heretofore made
by this paper that when the returning
tide of immigration sets in toward
Western Kansas, renewed prosperity
will not be matter Of slow and halt
ing movement, but that the next
twelve months after the flood tide be
gins would record a most startling
change. The signs of the times now
indicate that this prediction, which
many regarded as visionary and i'm
probable, will very soon be verified.
People are now dropping in one or
two families at a time, bnt there are
many groups OF twenty five to one
hundred families in colony, ready
to change their habitations. The
year of our Lord, 1892, will show a
movement of people from the old
world which has not been equalled
for at least five years. Kansas is
once more the popular Mecca for
home seekers. Since cur last boom,
California, Oklahoma, Washington
and Dakota have had their day.
While these regions have their advan-
tages, none of them offer such posi-
bilities of UNIVERSAL prosperity to the
industrious husbandman as the beau
tiful and fertile prairies of Kansas.
This beautiful land, with its sunny
skies and hcalthful climate, its rich
Soil So easily brought under a high
state Of cultivation, is now thoroughly
known over the civilized world as the
place where farmers may make pleas
ant homes and amass wealth.
Russia and Germany will this year
each add largely to the volume
of immigration to the United States
Those who ere preparing to come to
our prosperous land are mostly prac-
teal farmers. They are patient, in
dustrious and frugal. Many Of their
countrymen have made homes in
different parts Of America Kansas
has her full proportion of these Ger
man speaking people, and in this
state they have thriven and prospered
as no where else Those who came
even to the poorest part of Kansas ten
or fifteen years ago are now almost
invariably wealthy landlords, renting
farms to more recent arrivals from
the fatherland. Even the tenants are.
after few years, financially able to
acquire lands on the terms they can
be had at present in western Kansas.
Many Menonites have settled in Ma
rion. Butler, Reno, Mcpherson and
Harvey counties. Those who came
last are renting from their country
men who came earlier. New arrivals
now rapidly augmenting the tenant
class force rents higher and higher
until many now furnish their own
seed, team and implements and pay
one half the crops in the granary for
the use Of lands not SO smooth and
fertile as those of this county. They
have begun to stir out and look around
for homes of their own, as that which
they rent cannot be bought for less
than from thirty to forty five dollars
per acre, and there are not many on
the market at those prices. A few
have recently settled in Ford county
and reported to their friends in cen
tral Kansas, who are now investigat-
ing. In Marion county there are at
least one hundred families of the ten
ant class who will move somewhere
this year. They have been sought by
immigration agents from Dakota and
the northwest, even emissaries from
Manitoba, Canada, using their most
persuasive pleas, but those regions
they regard too cold. Some of them
went to Oklahoma, but came back re-
porting too many rough characters
throughout that country. Though
using beer to some exteut, they love
peace and abhor strife and disorder
The strict enforcement of law which
our officers now insist upon suits them.
Good order is what they want. and it
does not interfere with their taste for
beer, as they take little barley and
brew each for his own family use.