The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-04

ton for the overcrowded condition Of
the cities.
Ii I'VE hundred thousand families
could be taken from the cities OF Amer
lea and placed on small tracts Of land,
where they could make a living. II
would be an Industrial revolution.
This would mean two million people,
giving four TO q family. That there are
five hundred thousand families in
America who would be glad OF the op-
portunity to get a small farm, Il they
knew how to do it, there can be no
question. Kansas is only ASKING Tor
two hundred and fifty thousand OF these
families, and that she can take care OF
them, giving them the necessities and
comforts of life, we can prove TO the
most skeptical.
A man can buy forty acres OF good
land in several Of the counties IN Kan
sas for $500 He can build himself a
house for $500, and he can stock his
farm and buy seed FOR $500 more. Thus
for $1,000 man can become his own
employer. That he and his family can
live on forty acres OF land and nave
something to spare, can be proven by
hundreds Of cases in Kansas today.
Where man can pay the $1,000 1t Is
wise to do so, but man is perfectly
safe in buying a forty acre farm and
going into debt $780, The interest on
this amount at z per cent per annum
would be less than So per month: not
more than one-half what he would have
TO pay for small house in the city.
The object of the Kansas Real Estate
association is to get laws on the statute
books that are just to the borrower and
lender: to give information to home
seekers, and assist them in finding suit
able locations. Also ito encourage the
buying of small tracts of land, and TO
| discourage purchasers from assuming
large mortgages. The association be-
iieves that the man who owns forty
acre farm, fully paid for, Is better of
than the man who Owls an eighty acre
farm and has it mortgaged for one-half
its value.
Having established the fact that a
man can support his family on a similar
! investment in Kansas, where he is sur
rounded by good schools, churches,
and more advanced civilization than
any other state in the Union, and know
ing that two hundred million people
would gladly come to Kansas II the
facts were presented to them, the Kan
sas State Real Estate association viii
| discuss this at their September meeting.
not as lanthropists, but as business
Il IL
million more people to Kansas we viii
have benefited every one or them, and
| the state of Kansas also. And the
members of the association viii be en-
titled to fair commission on the sales
| for their services.
How to get the people of America to
know about our chaep land, Is the ques-
! tion that the associat ion will have to
solve Nearly all the letters that have
received on the subject say, You idea
! is a good one; give US the details OF
| your plan for getting the million peo-
pie" This will endeavor to do, max
ing it as plain as possible.
propose, that in every city in Kan
sas where there Is newspaper pub
| lished, million club shall be organized
with a president. secretary and treas
urer. There shall be no fee; each mem
Der shall pledge himself to write his
relatives and friends, inviting them to
make their home in Kansas. After
reading their county papers, each one
should send them to parties who would
he likely to come to Kansas. The OBJ
of the club will be to build up the coun-
| fy newspapers; to prevent the coun-
| ties from being lied about; to see that
only the truth is published; and to
make it PLEASANT for parties who come
to live in their neighborhood.
The newspapers will be paid for their
work by new subscribers and extra adj
vertising. The merchants will be paid
| by extra trade, the owners Of land by
their sales, and the real estate agents
by their commissions. That everyone
in the state will be benefited, cannot
4 be questioned. uAs
I AS early as possible after the Sep
tember meeting a train Of not less than
twenty-five cars, filled with the pro-
duce, fruits, minerals, and manufac-
tured goods of Kansas should be taken
through the eastern states, so that the
people can seen what we have In Kan
sas to offer them.
I am free to confess that the success
| or failure Of my plan to get one million
people TO Kansas rests with the news
paper editors Of the state, and with the
efforts of the people. The local paper
! is interested in the development OF the
city and county In which 1t is publish
ed, and the better II Is supported the
more it can do for its people. Every
! paper sent out OF city is an advertise
ment for that locality. The world will
get to know Kansas through printers
ink, and the tone Of the outside press
| will be moulded by the sentiment Of the
local press OF Kansas. And for this
reason my plan is, that each county
shall organize and work for itself.
The Kansas State Real Estate asso-
citation has not been idle this year
Nearly every county in Kansas IS now
represented. We have more than five
hundred agents In Illinois interested in
sending immigration to this state, and
we are making the same arrangements
with agents in Iowa, Indiana, Ohio and
Missouri. BY the next annual meeting
we expect to have representative In
every county In every state in the
Union, who viii be working with our
association to locate people in Kansas
| Our plan is to pay q man for his work,
andafn return to receive pay from those
| for whom we work. In this way we ex'
| pect to build up a permanent associa-
ton on business principles, which viii
he benefit to those who desire to come
here, for the reason that they will be
/ able to get correct information about
any locality in Kansas, at little cost
And 1t will also help the state by In
creasing the population.
/ submit these few facts for the con.
sideration OF those who are interested
| in our Million club.
The Kansas Real Estate association,
e. JAMESON. President
CURE FOR HEADACHE.