The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-12-24
Admit One Kansas Crank.

Perhaps this tendency of Kansas to claim
regency over the earth the air above and the
waters beneath has been exemplifed in too CAV
light For the truth is that this Kansas
tendency must command the thoughtful mans
respect The wise men must see in this Crap
ping power of Kansas. an indication of the
peoples strength Here is a youthful COM
munity of little more than d million souls. re-
ceiving citizens from all over the world-from
every kindred, every tribe-digeSting them, as
Stimulating them, and making them-nOt eX-
OhioanS, not HooSierS, not Southe-nerS. not
Yankees not Irish. Dutch. French, Germans,
SwedeS nor Jews, but Kansans and proud OF it:
who are. let US hope and believe, the best types
OF Americans.
That there is force in this spirit of Kansas no
well informed mind doubt The Kansan
spirit is full of vigor. The motor one meets in
the works of Kansas has virility behind it. 1t
abounds in courage 1t is like the bridegroom
coming from his chamber. rejoicing as strong
man to run race. The exuberance of Kansas
is manifest in the land This exuberance
sent John Brown out to fight the United States
army: it convinced the world that the solar
system was merely a suburban addition of
Greater Wichita: it persuaded number
Of statesmen that few days of their inspir-
ing presence in Washington would effect a
repeal of the laws of gravitation and put a
brown beaver ulster on the open-fa ed gen.
tleman who for some time has been Shiverng
uncared for in the center of the signs of the
zodiac Kansas exuberance has projected a
paper railroad from the upper margin of the
Aurora Borealis to the extreme southern fringe
of the Lodge bill And yet. for all this, its
potency for good has quckened the American
nation time and again.
The puissance of Kansas is not in the soil
For since the Pilgrims landed the stern
and rock bound coast no American pioneers
have fought more Stubbornly with the elements
than the kanSanS have fought This prepol-
lency of Kansas comes not through her COM
merce even though her corn may furnish feast
for kingdoms. and her steers give meat to
principalitieS and powers
true essence of the sway that Kansas has
in the world may not be gathered into statis
tics; it may not find lodgings in the clearing
house ledger; it eludes the pursuer with his
avoirdupols scales: but it shines forth in the
high per centum Of literacy and the consequent
deep. wholesome morality of the people. They
are approaching-even If from afar of-the
ideal of conduct that always before the
fathers who crossed the sea" Kansas has
erected to her god little white shrine in every
township The high priestess thereof is the
schoolma am, and when she is in her holy tenn
ple-well may the nations tremble.
Kansas. by reason of the high standard Of in
telligence which her people have reached has
become the nations barometer. The minds of
kanSanS are responsive to psychological cur
rents. The states brain seems sensitive to
economic progresses and social evolutionS
Timbuctoo is dead to the pulses of the market
Only people of much culture can register ap-
proach OF a thought can see the shadow Of a
coming event Yet Kansas has this faculty.
The Kansas boom broke in 1888: the
national panic occurred five years later in
1898. And so there were signs to the
prophets in the elder days. just as sure do the
Kansas good times of 1897 foretell the coming of
an era of national prosperity in 1898. The mi
crobe of despair nestled in the internal Struc-
ture of Kansas six long colicky years bafore
Uncle Sam grew pale around the mouth and
| had to take DR.. Mrkinleys gold cure. The
bacteria of confidence have been in the air for
a year. OF course. Kansas caught conf
dence first because her organism is deli
cate. Kansas. among the veStal of virgins,
is the oracle-ths prophecies. And Kansas
bids you hope. She knows not whv-maybe
| her reason is a woman's reason. Kansas. that
put on her old brown alpaca dr. SIS and led the
world into the valley of the commercial shadow
ten years ago-to-day is wear ing 40 hat and
q 80 smile while she holds up her overSkirt
to show her new silk pettieoat and goes switch
ing out along the trail that leads through the
land of milk and honey.
So do not puzzle yourself to account for Kan
saS. Accept her for what she sand thank
Heaven she wasn't born twins But she will
| God said: Let there be light and there was
Kansas
Bolln's Bondsmen Mulcted.
OMAHA, Neb., Dec. 20.-The jury in
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