The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-12-16
OUR SUNNY KANSAS
Kansas Should Get a Move on Herself
and Drag In a Few Needed
Emigrants.
The Finest Agricultural State In the
Union Could Use a Few ThOus-
and Farmers.
The Statistics Of Our Products are Too
Enormous to be Believed by
Outside Parties.

Outside Parties.
For several years Kansas has been
taking rest, SO far as any organized
effort is concerned. to bring people to
the state. hot only has there been q
failure to Systematically keep the add
vantages of our climate and soil and
the productions Of the latter before the
public. But we have sustained q
drain upon our population by the
alluring and fascinating advertise
ments of less favored but more pushing
new states and territories. Oklahoma
made heavy draft upon the state,
and the northwest and the Pacific
coast have reaped fair harvest by
judiciously advertising the advantages
they imagine they possess. At the
worlds fair there will be a strife be-
tween all the states as to which will
outstrip the other in their exhibits,
especially will there be great rivalry
among the newer states Kansas can
not afford to do less than make the
most creditable display she is capable
Of. To large extent the worlds fair
is an advertising scheme. At the CEN
tennial exhibition at Philadelphia the
Kansas exhibit attracted the attention
of all visitors, and as an advertisement
for the state was worth a thousand
times as 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 for the low price Of wheat and
cattle, but the state is not to blame
for the market price of her products.
What the people want to know is what
We produce and how much. Market
prices fuctuate. but good, strong, rich
soil and climate that makes it pro-
ductive are q fixture and that is what
will attract home-seekers. There can
be no doubt that If the exact truth was
known in regard to Kansas-her eli
mate and coil and the diversity of
profitable crops that can be raised
but that there would be larger immi-
grafton 10 Kansas the coming year
than was ever known before.
The great trouble is that when we
attempt to tell the truth our veracity
is questioned. So skeptical are the
people Of the east that they don't be-
lieve Kansas raised this year rs, 0OO,-
900 bushels of wheat, aud 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 preiu-
dice, and to pound into these skeptics
the truth. If farming is profitable
anywhere it is so in Kansas. Land
that can be brought for S., $40, $15
and $40 per rcre that will produce
from twenty-five to forty bushels OF
wheat, and 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.
a country ought not to remain I'm.
settled that has a climate that is un.
equalled, and the climate of Kansas
has never received the attention il
deserves at the hands of her people in
representing her advantages.
We have been too long, Mioawber
like, been waiting for something ia
turn up, and it is high time to shed
our coats, roll up our sleeves and make
Kansas what she ought to be; the
leading agricultural state..-Wichits
Eagle.