The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-11-12
WHAT TOPEKA CAN DO
Organize al She Did For the
Fall Festival.
Let the Commercial Club Take
the Leadership
Of Our 10000 ResOlute, En-
thusiastic People.

Last summer Topeka demonstrated
that when all her people unite to ae-
complish certain end they can sue
ceed beyond their fondest expectations.
Topeka people. 10000 of them. decided
that they would have FAN Festival
They began working On it, and six
months brought about the most Won
derful fruiuon ever seen in the west
A city of $4,000 people entertained
twice as many more. and did il SO well
that they are all coming back next
year. each one bringing somebody else
with him.
How did Topeka do this2
Merely by the strength Of her own
enthusiasm Topeka spent fully $4,000
on the festival; and immeasurable en-
ergy
AIl obstacles melted before the force
of a mass of 10000 people, al imbued
with the same idea
We learned a great lesson in that ef-
fort of ours We learned that if we all
get together cease our petty internal
struggles and act as brethren and sis
ters in one cause we can accomplish
any object Tt is heralded all over the
east that a season of prosperity is at
hand. Capitalists are going to unlock
their bank vaults and invest their mon
ey i'm projects that Will be renuneratfve
to them. This money must come west.
There is no place for most of il in the
east. SeVen-tenths of the capital to be
invested viii be invested west of the
Missouri river.
While there are some that say that
Kansas VIII get but little of this money
tney nave little to ground their asser-
LoAs on Kansas viii get its share
along with Nebraska, Colorado. Indian
Territory. Wyoming. Montana North
and South Dakota and other states.
1T money is to be made anywhere it
is to be made in the virgin west. Not
in lending money TO farmers at a high
rate Of interest and getting MORTGAGES
on their farms. but in putting it into
legitimate investments which will yield
a return from honest toll
The west needs more people conse-
Quentiy more mills. more stores. more
buildings. more roads, bridges. manu-
factured products and all the varied
objects that people pay out hard cash
for
Let Topeka unite to secure a part of
the golden tide of prosperity that lis
bound to flow westward soon Vyi+7
6uch crops as Kansas has produced for
khe past TWO years. money is absolutely
certain to pour into our state If only to
buy the crops. Now. let as also seek fl
bring the people mere
We have the finest climate on earth
MV Istlae az p4g or plgger crops than anv
western state, we have as good schools
ana cnufC mes as any in the Union and
more Of them than most other states
III Iopeka does as much ana as hard
Wofh the Wh0Ie year round as it did for
the all Festival for six months 4z-s
san add 10000 people to our population
by 1900. r.
The groaner. the scrsecher. croazer
ana wilmer must be suppressed TrI7a
man who is chronicaliy ashamed ~
Kansas ought to move out of it, what
want is more people, and every man
y 10 Us ms voice against our state
3AlNss Immigration away
1Ai-ll9u5n our past sins in this line
-. & 997i1 n, many there IS yet time TO
lelQsln- There is yet time to brine
tnose IusuUU people To Topeka
Ne sn0uld send out litera tl1rs a g NO
selt OUT 1leIdJ ure for the Fan Festival
ard as both the campaign o.or7r7i+tszs5s
sent out the past summer. No+Lf,-
reaches the people like well worded ar
EuInentS tnaU they have time to per11s2
and think about Calamity vvailina
must be stopped
Under the leadership of the CONNER
cal CLUB the whole city of Topeka can
Ae organized as an army to bring ir17r7si-
grants Let every man and woman ba
q committee Of one to help ON the GOOD
cause Let rs have general commit
17s ana sub committees unlimited
Let us rouse to this our FIRST onDortu-
- - u ten years to do sometime far
our city and state
nave SAT in the ashes long enough.
- 1taiily, progressive and active a
main idle and hopeless
Let US make q supreme ee. s a.,
ball viii start rolifne 0i anu eAle
Don't have the least doubt that ii
Everybody give it a push.