The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-17

Wyandotte, Lawrence and Topeka slept
in the intervals of their strife with
the petty tyrants of their fields, and be-
yond their western horizon the rest
was silence, solitude and the wilder
ness to the Rio Grande, to the Vel
Iowstone, to the Sierra Navada; like
the lonely steppes of Turkestan and
Tartary, inhabited by wandering tribes
whose occupation was war; whose past
time was the chase; pastured for I'M
told centuries by roaming herds that
followed the seasons in their recurring
migrations from the arctic circle to
the gulf
It has been sometimes obscurely in
timated that the typical Kansan lacks
in reserve and occasionally exhibits
tendency to eXaggeratiOn in dwelling
upon the development of the state and
the benefits and burdens of its citi-
zenship.
Censorious scoffers, actuated by envy
jealousy, malignity ard other evil
passions, have limited that he unduly
vaunteth himself; that he brags and
becomes vaingloriOus; that he is given
to bounce, tall talk and ma gniIoquence.
There have not been wanting those
who affirm that he magniffes his cal
antilles as we'll as his blessings, and de-
sireS nothing so much as to have the
name of Kansas in any capacity al
ways in the ears and mouths of men.
Such accusations are well calculated
to make the judicious grieve. They
result from a nisconception of the man
and his environment.
The normal condition of the genuine
Kansan is that of shy and seneitive
difidence. He suffers from excess of
modesty. He bushes too easily. There
is nothing he dislikes so much as to
hear himself talk. He hides his light
under a bUshel. He keeps as near the
tail end as possible. He never adver-
tises. He bloweth not his own horn,
and is Indifferent to the band wagon.
He is oppressed by the vast response
biIity of being an inhabitant Of a com
monwealth so immeasurab bly, superior
in all the prophecies of future renoWn
to it's inferior companions.
To be q denizen of a state that sur
passes all other communities as Maya
ra ezzcels all other cataracts, as the sun
transcends all other luminaries, i'm
poses obligations that render levity i'm
possible.
The every day events of Kansas
would be marvels elsewhere; our plati-
tudes would be panegyrics; the trite
and commonplace are unknown. It is
impossible to overestimate the value
of citizenship in a state that sent more
soldiers into the Union armies than it
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