The Globe-republican., 1892-12-02
Division Bound to Come.

DIVISION 6Ouno 10 ZONE.
So far we have not found single news
paper west of the center of Kansas whlcl
is not in favor of the new state. TOpek;
wants it, though she does not come OH
openly for fear of failure on state house
appropriations by antagOnizing some o.
the interior cities which want to hold i
together in the hope that some day the
capital will be moved west and lightning
strike their vague aspirations into boom.
ing reality. Hutchinson and Mcpherson
oppose it because the capital bee has
been booming in their respective bOnnets
for 10, these many years. Wichita does
not want it because a new state would
start smaller cities to booming west OF
the .:peerless princess. and cut off much
of her frontier trade. The location OF
the capital in the new commonwealth
would soon give one point metropolitan
proportions; another would have boom
from state institutes of learning, while
the erection of various asylums and in
dustrial establishments would bring la
borers to help construct, and stir up a
spirit of speculation that would bring in
new money TO: investment, diffusing life.
energy and active prosperity all over the
new territory.
Dodge City would be the seat of gov
eminent, easily enough. We could well
afford to donate the necessary buildings,
but other prominent cities would not be
neglected. At least half dozen points
can count on doubling their wealth and
prosperity by reason of the impetus to
prosperity occasioncd by capturing state
institutions. Men of wealth and influ-
ence will come to these cities. Their
friends will follow and scatter all over
the country. making homes and helping
swell the tidal wave of prosperity in
all the rural regions. In no other way
can a new era Of prosperity be so quick
iy engendered. Our great wheat yields
will bring it to pass without the new
state, but not so rapidly, and what we
want now is action on the double quick
order.
Our western exchanges are all full of
the scheme, and from the various COM
ments we select those of the Ness City
Lance as characteristic:
''The Lance is unqualitiedly IN favor
of a division. asylum or no asylum.
severe the state divided. the line
would probably be drawn so as to place
Ness City very near the geographical
center of the new state: near enough.
anyhow, to secure the capital. But if we
were located anywhere within a radius
of fifty miles we would be benefited
thereby. 1t would be much better to be
within fifty. aye. a hundred miles of the
capital, than to be showed off to one side
like bound boy at a huSking bee.
|. .Politics need not enter into this mat
Ger at all. 1t is not political question.
At is Il question of justice and equity, and
should be handled as such by all politi-
seal parties.
'The change may not be made this
winter, perhaps not for a couple of years,
but it is bound to come. And our Lance
is poised for the fray. We want to hear
the Clarion notes from Lacrosse Regis
tered at Great Bend. Then the Sentinel
at Garden City should give them trans
port to the Dighton Herald, so that the
News may be sent out from Ness City to
the Western Kansas WOrld.''.
LATER.-The Kansas City Journal of
yesterday morning had special that
populiSt leaders have declared for divi-
sion. and two bills are already drafted /:
one cutting on line west of Jewel. Mitch
ell. Rice and Ellsworth. The other west
line of Republic. Cloud and Ottawa.