The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-08-11
Daily Easle
NJ NJ MURDOCK, Editor.
DEFENCE OF KANSAS.

I Action and reaction are equal. Inc
hendulum having reached one end OF
the arc swings back to the other A
malicious lie seldom fails of knocking
tut its author Col. Dan1 X. Anthony,
editor of the Leavenworth Times, has
lust returned home from the east 10
write a piece about Kansas. lie mas
been living in Kansas and writing Tor
Kansas for about forty years. His VISIT
east was on the occasion of reunion Oh
the Anthony family, of which he Is The
head Of the Kansas branch. While east
1t seems that he was afforded many OPP
portunities of listening 10 estimates Oh
his afopted state, which, coming from
outside parties should have proved fair
and disinterested, hut which, in fact
ts seemed TO him, malicious falsehoOds,
hardly even warranted by VIII Whites
i'What's the Matter With Kansas At
dis old home, in Rochester, he picked
up a paper containing an Assoclatel
Press dispatch, under a Leavenworth
date, which contained, 10 him, the as
founding information that Kansas had
as usual been blasted with drouth and
hot winds and the state left desolate
desert He knew that the summer har-
vest of grain had been magnificent and
that corn was in roasting ear before he
left home. But there was dispatch,
bstensfbly from his own office, verify
Ing Just what he had been IN good faith
denying. Closed was his defence, and
he returned home to find the state, and
ell its affairs, including its crop condi-
lions Just as he had left them, and just
as he had every reason 10 expect So
he writes piece for the better informa-
fion Of our eastern slandereTS. as also
3or the etlification of his Kansas readers
iIe does not slop over with Indignation
nor peel any epider1nis in his rebuke Of
an outrage which seems devilsh in its
persistency, but defends Kansas in such
a spirit of caimneSS with words Of such
evident truth as cannot fail Of carrying
conviction. Altogether il is one Of the
most diSpaSSiOnate, effective and unan-
swerable defences made of this much
mahgned state in a long while. The
truth is, that while a great number of
eastern money loaners Over-reached
themselves in their greed for Kansas Sc
rurities, and are consequently very sore,
and that while Kansas may not be an
earthly paradise in every particular,
net the fact remains, sustained 0y both
experience and statistics, that taken all
around and one year with another, it is
the most desirable commonwealth in
which to live and breathe and have
Dnes being than any like area on the
North American continent, if not on the
globe. The money combines and cor
porations which induced the filing up-of
the western high-plain pasture lands
with people who starved and suffered in
their attempts TO make a living by the
pillow. resulted in number OF calls for
said But the eXegencieS OF such an
episode will hardly be possible again.
There are two KanSaseS, each inimita-
bic in its way, and both bound 10 be ex-
ceptOnally prosperous and independent |
In the end. And SO action and reaction |
being equal" the lies which have been |
promulgated against her by the east !
have already begun to go bounding back |
into the teeth of the defamers. which |
fact sooner or later will rebound to our |
benefit.