The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-23
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M. NJ. MURDOCH, Editor
KANSAS. AND THAT IS TO BE.

There are more days to the year IL
Kansas than anywhere, days OF un-
dimmed suns, days ushered in under
eastern skies Of carmine dyes, days
whose star-gemmed endings fade out ID
opalescent glories, mountainward, days
as pregnant of impulse and OF animated
nope as her illimitabie horizon IS full OF
promise, peace and plenitude. The an
nails of Kansas are a historical trophy, a
political benefaction; her struggles and
sripn,phs a tribute to heroism, no less
Shan a heritage and an inspiration. Inc
very name, Kansas, is SYNONYM OF bat
tie HYMNS and Of victories. Kansas, the
nivotal star OF the American constella-
ton. the central state Of the Union, IS to
become the focus of a continent S
mental and material energies. Kansas
IS not only central, but midway, and,
Intermediate; midway of ocean and
ocean, midway from Lakes to Gulf and
sea; intermediate IN altitude and IN
climate, being neither sea-level valley
nor of mountain elevation, but the best
and the most equitable Of all that is to
be found in either. Kansas climate,
Kansas soil and Kansas civilization con-
stitute homogeneous when once COM
pretended and felt imparts touch and
a spell that can never be shaken off.
But there is a present and future
Kansas confronting the statesman, the
political economist and the historian.
With perpetual blue above, unending
bloom beneath, with thousands upon
thousands, and added thousands Of legal
subdivisions marking the metes and
bounds of future homesteads, Of warm
and generous soils whose possibilities are
but half comprehended as they roll IN
gentle swells away ever and on beyond
she limits of vision, intersected by the
free-fringed courses of multiplied
streams, and circled and spanned and
countertraced by the steel-gfistening
tracks of commerce, lie the teemlng
prairies of Kansas, almost untouched as
yet Wy the economic efforts and subdu-
ing forces of the million and a half of
people who boast these boundless pos-
sessions. An embryotio city here, a
bright town there, scattered every where
fields, orchards, herds and homes as yet
but mere clustering dots upon an ever
expanding landscape, where tfve-fold of
each and everything might be added
without crowding or Inconvenience
ing the present occupants, and |
only TO their profit. Multiplied |
by only five and the people of Kansas |
would number seven and one-half mil |
lions; by five her homes and herds, by |
five her orchards and fields, by five her
Industries and interests, and who could |
estimate the aggregated wealth, the
accumulated power and importance of |
Kansas.
No more certain is the past Of Kansas
history, her future prophecy, than
that her present is potent verify.
Extravagances and over-reachings and
all the depressions of the reaction of a
boom and crop failure are of the past,
md the fields of Kansas are again re-
spending to the mingled smiles and tears
of heaven with an abundance that is
heaping her bins with a treasure of
golden grains whose overflow is produc-
sng a returning tide of relief that is bear
5ng back in its deep and onward sweep
wealth and prosperity 10 the people of
Kansas.