Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1898-01-22
SATURDAY, JANUARY %.
NEW CAMP LOGAN.
rlore About the New Reunion
Grounds.

show that this purchase was "a wis,
act, both for the Association ant
Baxter Springs. I trust my friend'
who are prejudiced on either o
these propositions will lay asid,
their preconceived ideas and not b.
numbered with that class in thii
world who love darkness rathel
than light, not because their deeds
are evil, but because they have ,
few cents at stake.
We are too apt to think of the i'm
mediate present and our own sci
fish interests, rather than the gen
eral good. The majority of man
kind will accept the truth wher
properly presented. We are sure to
condemn narrowness in others ever
if we neglect to pull the mote on
of our own eyes.
When we look at the transaction
from financial standpoint for tn.
Association, no one, with judgment
can for a moment question it's wis
dom. For fifty.one weeks in the
year Camp Logan was valueless to
the Association and every hundred
dollars that might have been put
into II would have been put into /,
would have been the same, but not
so with the newly bought grounds.
For six months in the year they will
rent for more than enough TO pay
the interest on the investment, and
every dollar invested will enhance
the value of the grounds, which
was not true of Camp Logan. The
people owning property in proxim-
ity feel already that it has been an
advantage to them, while those liv.
ing near Camp Logan have felt that
it was injurious to their property
and would give much to have il re-
moved.
When the new Camp Logan is
laid out and the old veterans come
TO the reunion and behold the ex-
tensive lands and the bright pros
pect for the future, aud contrast
them with the small and hopeless
prospect of the old Camp Logan
they will not initiate the penurious-
ness of the city in the past, but will
exhibit a spirit of generosity that
will place the reunion on financial
basis that it could never attain on
the old grounds.
In other words il will be much
easier TO raise five thousand dollars
to improve new Camp Logan than
one thousand to improve the old
camp.
Now for the second propositions:
Will it not prove wise act for Bax.
ter Springs! We do not speak of
the immediate present alone, but
both present and future. The A 3.
sociation in the past has had much
dissension with the city govern
ment. This movement removes all
grounds for future difficulties ant
holds each responsible for their
own government.
1t also must end the war between
the north and south ends. The
north end can now devote all her
energies in building up the Black
grounds for home and foreign pic
MICS, for which it is by nature and
location SO well adapted. II will
now give the city time to erect four
stones to mark important historic
places in her history before they
are lost sight of, which has been so
neglected. Baxter Springs is today
known by her gigantic reunions.
The knowledge of the place will
widen as the influence and knowl-
edge of the reunions increase aud
widen.
And the Inauguration of new
movement already contemplated
and begun will be sure to extend
and deepen the interest in the re-
unions. It is this wise movement
that lie to bring the sons and daugh-
tiers of veterans 10 the front, teach
ing them to assume and feel re-
sponsibility while the fathers are
at the helm.
The old ship of state now has
within her executive, judicial and
Legislative halls some of the bright
est aud most brainy young men in
America, associated with the broad
craftsmanship Of Sherman in the
Cabinet. Hoar and others in the
Senate and Grow in the House.
Thus may we see associated with
weldy, Cooper, Fribiey, Weaver,
Hartley aud others, their sons and
daughters. who are TO continue this
great work when the old veterans
are gone. May 1t resemble the great
at Milan which was five
hundred years in building-one
generation after another passed
away. but the grand work went on
80 may the influence and work of
our new Camp Logan advance, aud
In future years become the glory of
the Baxter Springs of the twentieth
century. An OLD SOLDIER.
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