The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-17
Mr.. DAVIS HERE.
j. A. Davis, Industrial Com
missioner of the Santa Fe,
Makes a Visit to this City ON
Business.
Says the East Has Not Lost
Faith in Kansas,
WILL AGAIN INVEST
And Accept Mortgage Payable
in Silver or Gold.
Were Pleased at Conservative
LegislatiOn-NOt Regulators.

IN my opinion no state among all
the great states of the west has at the
present time such magnificent oppor-
tunltles as those which are confronting
Kansas today said J. A. Davis, the
Industrial commissioner of the Santa
10 Journal reporter this morning
MT Davis has just returned from a
visit through the east, spending much
time in New York among the men
whose wealth has been largely invested
IN Kansas securities He is enthusi-
2Stlc over the unusual interest mani
tested in Kansas and believes that the
coming season will witness a return to
Kansas of all investments that have
been temporarily withdrawn, augment
ed by additional capital owned by men
who have become convinced that this
state is worthy of confidence and that
her people are not repudiators, the
hoWlings of her traducers to the con-
trary notwithstanding
discussing his eastern trip and the
result of his Investigations and obser-
Vatlons, Mr.. Davis continued:
w hen this country RECEIVERS from
that unknown disease which has been
gnawing at it's vitals during the past
year, 1t is my candid opinion that Kan
saS viii experience unprecedented de-
Velopment. The state has magnificent
resources, cCmmendable energy thrifty
people and boundless opportunities
There has been heaped upon the state
all sorts of undeserved criticism and
the dawn is breaking: that from the
darkness of political complications and
restless elements of people there is APP
pearing q light which will guide the
people of Kansas to greater conqueSts
than they have yet experienced.
The people of the east anticipated
the most radical and rabid legislation
from the assembly which has just adj
journed that could have possibly been
imagined. They were led to believe
that everything under the shining sun
would receive more or less regulation.
but the Legislature has adjourned and
no radical legislation has been enacted.
The war between capital and labor has
not resulted in the passage of laws
which are inimical to the interests
which are doing so much to upbuild
the state. The people in the east who
have money to invest are looking to
Kansas. The work in which we are
engaged in the new industrial depart
ment is in no sense discriminatory
against other states and we are max
ing every effort to furnish inquirerS all
the information that can possibly be
secured with reference to the country
which the Santa Fe traverSes. How
ever, among all of those states it is my
candid opinion that Kansas attracts the
most attention.
The state has so distinguished her
self in past years that her reputation
has been the point of attack among all
people who as investors, have been dis
appointed in Missouri, Colorado and
icisrns against the west Kansas has
borne the brunt, but the present indi-
Gates that the state will emerge from
these insignificant difficulties and be-
come greater and grander.
THE legislature which was expected
to be the most radical that men could
imagine has been conservative. East
ern people had formed wrong conclu-
sions, and 1 found many of them, the
leading financiers, who are not only
willing but are anxious to assist in aid
ing Kansas. They have come to a re-
alization of the fact that Kansas is all
right; that the state has been Slandered
and traduced and that her people are
not the regulators and anarchists that
they have been charged with being
The east has faith in Kansas. and it is
my candid opinion that any eastern
moneyed man would accept a Kansas
mortgage at this time. payable in any
kind of coin. Everyone knows that
the time is not long past when they
would accept only those contracts which
were made payable in gold"
Did you hear any intimation that in
yestments already made in Kansas
would be withdrawn " inquired the re-
porter.
Not the slightest. assure you that
no such sentiment exists in the east
DO you believe that capital has been
driven out of the state by our own
peopIe?"
NO, sir, do not" replied Mr.. Davis.