The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-12-08
TIME TO GET A MOVE ON.

For several years Kansas has been TAX
ing a rest, so far as any organized effort
is concerned, to bring people to the state.
Not only has there been a failure TO sys-
tematically keep the advantages of ou1
climate and soil and the productions of
the latter before the public. but we have
sustained drain upon our population
by the alluring and fascinating adver-
tisements of less favored but more push
ing new states and territories. Oklahoma
made heavy draft upon the state, and
the Pacific coast and the northwest
have reaped fair harvest by judiciously
advertising the advantages they imagine
they possess. At the worlds fair there
will be a strife between all the states as
to which will outstrlp the other in their
exhibits, and especially will there be
great rivalry among the newer states.
Kansas cannot afford to do less than
make the most creditable display she
is capable of. TO a large extent the
worlds fair is an advertising scheme
At the centennial exposition at Phila-
attention of all visitors and as an adver-
tisement for the state was worth a
thousand times much as it cost.
and to that display Kansas owes many
OF her best citizens. And although it
followed so soon after the grasshopper
year of 1874, the people came floCking to
Kansas.
The past two years have been pros
porous ones for Kansas, limited some
what by the low price of wheat and
cattle, but the state is not be blamed for
the market price of her products. What
the people want to know is what we pro-
ducA and how much. Market prices
fluctuate; but good, strong, rich soil
and climate that makes it productive
are a fixture and that is what will at
tract home seekers. There can be no
doubt that if the exact truth was
known in regard 10 Kansas-her climate
and soil and the diversity OF profitable
crops that can be raised-but that there
would be a larger immigration 70 Kansas
the coming year than was ever known
before.
The great trouble is chat when we at
tempt 10 tell the truth our veracitv is
questioned. So skeptical are the people
of the east that they don't believe Kan
sas raised this year $4,000. 600 bushels of
wheat, and the state agricultural report
and the United States agricultural report
will be looked upon with suspicion.
1t should be our business and it is our
plain duty to overcome this prejudice,
and to pound into these skeptics the
truth. II farming Is profitable any
where it Is so in Kansas. Land that can
be bought for s., $40. Sl5 and $50 per
acre that Will produce from twenty-five
to forty bushels Of wheat, ami from
forty to sixty bushels of corn, ought not
TO lay idle when it has to compete with
the high priced lands Of the
eastern and middle states.
\ country ought not 10 remain unsettled
that has a climate that Is uneeualled.
and the climate of Kansas has never re
caived the attention it deserves at the
hands OF her people il representing her
advantages.
/; is an absolute fact that the mortality
of Wichita is the lowest Of any city in
this country that keeps record. We
have TOO long, Micawber like, been wait
ing for something TO turn up, and it Is
high time to shed our coats. roll up our
sleeves and make Kansas what she ought
to Ue, the lead ing agricultural state.