Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-12-23
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 gay
light For the truth is that this Kansas
tendency must command the thoughtful mans
respect The wise men must see in this grap-
pling power of Kansas, an indication of the
peoples strength. Here is youthful COM
munity of little more than a million souls, re-
ceiving citizens from all over the world-from
every kindred, every tribe-digesting them as
Stimulating them, and making them-aot ex-
Ohioans not Hoosiers, not southeYners, 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 can 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 MS strong
man to run u 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 q suburban addition OF
Greater Wchita it persuaded number
of statesmen that a few days of their inspir-
ing presence in Washington would effect
repeal Of the laws of gravltation and put
brown beaver ulster on the open-faced gem
tleman who for some time has been shivering
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 vet. for nil this it's
potency for good has ouiclened the American
nation time and again
The puissance of Kansas is not in the soil
For since the Pilgrims landed on the ''stern
and rock bound coastr no American pioneers
have fought more stubbornly with the elements
than the Kansuns have fought. This prepol-
lency of Kansas comes not through her COM
merce, even though her corn NAV furnish feast
for Kingdoms, and her steers give meat to
municipalities and powers
A true essence of the sway that Kansas has
in the world may not be gathered into statis-
tics; 1t may not find lodgings In the clearing
house ledger; it cludes 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 TINT was ALWAYS before the
fathers who CROSSED the sea- Kansas has
erected to her god n little white shrine in ovorv
townshin The bigh nriestess thereof 10 no
SobooIr,p od ~ - So No. 20 vno
eTl0oln% u anu Mneh sue - IN her noiy teih-
ple-Wcll may lue naJlohs tremDle'
Kansas, by reason of the high standard OF in
telligence which her people have reached has
become the nation's barometer The rninds NJ
Knnsans are responsive to nsvcbologicoi cnr-
-, nv 80, p9y o-o-Oe tI"i WI
rehUs Inc sIate 5 orail seems sensitive to
economic progresses ana social evolutions.
TimbuctOo is dead to the pulses OF the market |