The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-04-25
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9ai1u II Eagle
NJ. NJ. MURDOCH, Editor
KANSAS AND KANSANS.


Out of Difference to the envlou!
peoples of other states it might be un
truthfully admitted that Kansas ma:
her drawbacks. Her spring times ars
sometimes too windy and maybe-so are
oftimes also, her Inhabitants. Her har
vest times are as apt TO be disappoint
ing from their unexpected surplusagf
as for their skinny shortage. So liable
Is the Kansas nest-egg to prove double
yolked that it becomes difficult to emu
Inerate any particular prospective hatcn
with anything like that gertrude with
which the pecks of western irrigated
fields, and the bushels of eastern oyster
beds are estimated. If her numerously
frequent monstrosities incubate with
periodical regularity they in due time
conveniently die off, while there Is no
end to the average lay and resultant
aforementioned chicks. As for any
thing else, including health and happi-
ness, longevity and fecundity, of life
to the minute in climate of great
eauitableness and oZonic exhilaration,
end with much in little in every way,
comparisons are not possible. Kansas
stands unrivalled in a thousand things,
failures not included Her orange trees
and pineapple patches were not blight
ed by an early freeze; her wheat was
not winter killed; the Mississippi river
did not wash out her bottoms and de-
stroy her cotton fields; she didn't have
an inch of ice last week annihilating
her fruit crop, nor did cold wave
hlacken her spring vegetation With
ell these disasters, and more, happening
she has always been, unchangingly Sc
rene in deep-rooted content, whether 1t
proved a shortage or surplus, or but a
Pop investigation Whether it is her
longitude or her latitude, or but simple
attitude, nobody desires even to go any
where else, or if they should, the de-
sire to get back consumes them, unless
they happen to go to Kansas City, Mis-
souri,, and thus be lost TO themselves
and the state.
The peculiar thing about Kansas Is
that being peculiar is her normal con-
Gition. that her irregularity is the reg
ular thing. Where she is long on sun
shine she is short on clouds. Stagna-
ton in the concerns of her life is an i'm
possibility when everything is being
externally stirred UP, either by cyclones
and twisters, or by political earth
quakes. Her own love her, more for
what she isn't, than for what she is.
There is no other spot this side of Olym-
pus like her, and every Kansan is glad
that there isn't. In being so high up
from sea-level her cool summers are
unmarked with miasmatic shakes or
hereditary tuberculosis, while her south
ern borders hinge SO Intimately on h
Texas her winters are warm. Some
have essayed to tell the rest of the
world whats the matter with Kan
sas." There is nothing the matter with
Kansas, and If there was her people
would be happy in remaining oblivious
Of the fact
The prospects Just now-Kansas Is
always great on prospects-are unusu
ally promising for another enormous
crop of corn and OF wheat, mixed with
big hogs and fat cattle The only crop
that is not a promising crop is the dry
rot Pop crop. If these should all fall /
short later on. the prices will go cor |
respondingly higher, which will prove |
Just as satisfactory. This would prob |
ably be true of no other people on |
earth. When times are good and |
money plenty in Kansas the tendency /
is TO speculation, and for beating the /
confiding plutocrat of the east out of |
his hard earnings. by executing for /
him worthless mortgage. Upon the |
other hand, when times are hard the .
kGnsau goes TO work economizing, pay
Ing off his debts by permitting a fore
closure then, having accumulated an
other large nest-egg, goes bust on some
big boom. To do and die in Kansas Is
TO write ones name very high. is 10
make the longest possible hop-skip-and-
jump in the direction of enduring i'm
consequently. the unhappy
mortal who doesn't live in Kansas isn't
In IL