The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-27
KEEP YOUR EYE ON KANSAS.

Tom McNeal, one OF the editors OF tne
Topeka Mail and Breeze, who salts his
wisdom down with wit, and whose
bomilies are humorous, is accorded the
fourth page OF the State Board OF Agri-
cultures circular call for its January
meeting. Abandoning his usual banter
he devotes himself seriously to Kansas
in the following telling statisticai
chunks of truth:
.Whatever you may think OF her poiiti-
cal conduct; whether you wear the SACK
cloth of the defeated or snort with the eA-
ultant snort of the victor, the unaiteraoie
fact remains that Kansas Is stil the geo.
graphical center of the world-the Inch
pin of the universe.
even the fact that more people are en-
gagged either in abusing her or oefenoihs
her shows that she is built to attract at
tention and invite contention. The oroin-
ary. commonplace things OF the world DO
not attract attention: only the things OF
value invite contention.
kansas will IN the future, as she has
in the past, overcome more dinculties, ere
ate more surprises and make more mater
ial advancement in a given time than any
other state in the Union.
'Kansas is the only state that ever grew
enough wheat in one season to furnish
bread for more than a week for every
man. woman and child on the face OF the
globe from Orient to Occident, and from
Greenlands icy mountains to India's coral
strand. She is the only state that, on
pinch, can raise the products OF the frigid,
temperate and hot zones. She is the only
state that within twenty-four hours can
furnish climate suited to the taste OF the
ice IMAM from Iceland, the Pole from Po-
land, the Hol from Holland, or the tropical
savage from Borneo in his untrammeling
suit Of sunshine.
kansas is the only state that can mix
in the commerce of every cline, and
where a hot wind will affect the markets
of Christendom. Within the last ten years
the state has raised sufficient corn to fat
ten enough cattle to drink up the waters
of Lake Superior, and enough hogs to fur
nish ham gravy enough to float the navy
o. the United. States. She has enough
natural gas to supply the furnaces of civil
lization, and enough salt to make picking
brine out of all the fresh waters on the
globe.
'.The heads Of Kansas people, taken as a
whole, carry larger stock of brains than
the same number Of heads in any other
state in the Union.
''The people Of Kansas read more papers,
buy more books in proportion to their
means, think more and can talk better on
the average than the citizens of any other
commonwealth. Every theory finds able
advocates, and the Kansas man defending
an error. can generally out-talk a citizen
Of some other state who may be expound-
ing correct doctrine.
'Keep your eye on Kansas and don't be
discouraged In twenty years she will
have 100000 population and $1,000, 00O. 600
worth of property. She will profit by the
agricultural mistakes of the past and de.
velop along the lines that nature intended.
''Of all the states Kansas will finally
show up with the strongest. braniest men,
the handsomest women, the fattest cattle,
the most corpulent swine, and the swiftest
horses.
"All these things and many more,
1t would fill book to name them Ger.