The Advocate and news., 1898-04-13
Funds Wanted for Omaha Exhibit.
COMMIssION ZOE KANsAs EXHIBIT.

COMMISSION FOR KANSAS EXHIBIT.
To the People of the State of Kansas:
The Kansas Legislature having failed to
make an appropriation to enable our State
to make an exhibit at the Trans-Mississippi
and International Exposition at Omaha,
Neb., Governor Leedy, at the suggestion
of the State Board Of Agriculture, the State
| Horticultural Society, the Fine Stock
Breeders Association and many Of the cit
iZens OF our State, has appointed a Board
Of Commissioners to arrange for and carry
on plans and work that will enable Kan
sas to make a creditable and beneficial
exhibit at the said Omaha Exposition of
the agricultural, horticultural, live stock,
mining, educational and other interests OF
our State.
To do this work in a way that will be
creditable to our State and satisfactory to
the people who are so vitality interested
in these important matters the board Will
need the good will, the aid and assistance
Of all the people Of the State to raise
funds and collect material and get stock
ready to make an exhibit that will make
all Kansas feel an honest and manly pride
in our State.
The government Of the United States has
appropriated large sums Of money to aid
in making this great international eXposi-
tion especially valuable and useful to the
trans Mississippi country. 1t being the
first opportunity the West has had OF eX-
hibiting to the world the wonderful re-
sources Of the valleys of the Mississippi
and Missouri, 1t becomes q patriotic duty
Of the citizens Of the West, and especially
so of the people Of Kansas, to aid in MAX
ing II triumphant success 1t Will be
especially beneficial to our State, as 1t
will bring tens of thousands Of people
to the Mississippi country who have
never visited 1t before, and to our own
State to visit friends and relatives and
view and admire the wonderful produc-
tions of the soil, the live stock and herds
that fill the pastures and feed lots of our
State, the churches and school houses that
dot the landscape, the farms that show the
prosperity and happiness Of our people, and
then return to their homes in the East
and there in eloquent and vivid recitations
tell of the wonderful resources, the pros
perlty and beauty Of Kansas.
1t Is also the duty of our State to join
with her sister State, Nebraska, as she
will participate In all the benefit and en-
joy all the results from this great exhibit
tiOn in making this tranS-M iSSiSSippt DEM
onstration one Of the most interesting, val
liable and beneficial to the people OF Kan
sas as well as to the people OF Nebraska,
who are aided by the appropriation Of
many thousands Of dollars in making this
exposition great success.
In addition to the good work that the
United States Is doing to aid this exhibit
ton Of the resources OF this great and new
pecially our sister States of the fertile
valleys Of the two great rivers OF America,
are aiding by large contributions In the
erection Of suitable State buildings and
making vast exhibitions of the resources
of those States, and the Kansas commits
sioners believe that all citizens OF Kansas
will feel an honest pride and take ac-
tive interest in making Kansas worthy
associate in the work and a peer of the
greatest in the list. But to do this work
credltably 1t will take about $4,000.
The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, the
| Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, the Mis-
souri, Pacific and the st. Louis d san
Francisco railroads have generously ana
patriotically come to the assistance or the
| people and advanced $l5'OOO OF the needeo
amount.
Trusting to the patriotism and liberality
| Of our people, the commission has entered
upon the duties Of the work assigned to
| it, believing the people, the counties, cities,
| boards of trade and commercial agencies
will not let 1t fail before the work Is half
completed. The great expense has to be
incurred and met in the beginning, space
must be paid for in advance, a building
| for the State headquarters must be erected
| and paid for at once COLLECTIONS OF Iunus
made, freight bills met and many otnerr
| expenses that draw largely on the smaH
| sum OF money now at the disposal or the
board, so that immediate aid and hberai
assistance are needed This means, then,
| active work for those who can aid and
| assist In all available and proper ways to
| put the commission in position where IT
| can place Kansas abreast OF her sister
States.
| Mayors Of cities and boards OF trade ana
other commercial organizations, and all
other citizens, clubs, committees or organ
| izations that will at once so to work to
raise funds, collect and prepare material
for exhibition, and that the owners Of
zinc, lead, salt, coal and other mines Will
arrange to make exhibitions Of their min
eral products, and that the Fine Stock
Breeders Association arrange to place
! Kansas in the front rank as one OF tha
| great live stock States of the Union; that
| the educators, colleges and schools will
| take care that the educational interests OF
| the State are creditably represented.
The commission will give all the aid and
| Information possible in relation 20 all mat
! ters pertaining to its workings and all pos
| sible assistance will be given In the work
/ Of collecting specimens for exhibition, and
| aid, by all proper means, stockmen to get
| their stock In proper place and pay preml-
umS and paying freights, etc, as far an