The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-04-30
POINTS TO SUCCESS
TranSmiSSiSSippi Congress
Have Matters in Shape.
PLENTY OF WORK AHEAD
Thousands of Letters are Sent
Out Daily.

One Of the reasons for a mutually Je
tween the states lying west of the Mis-
sissippi River, comes from a similarity in
tie r.1aner of settlement and growth Of
nearly all the western states. Excepting
Louisiana and California with their older
communities, the western states have all
been populated by some distinct and
clearly demarked immigration movement.
Some Of the westward movements lasted
for years. Some have accomplished viz
tually the same thing in a day, as in Ok
lahomas case. But the phenomena &C
companying each settlement, long or short,
has been much the same. The evolution
of the smallest village in the country ly-
ing west of the Mississippi river Is Il min
iature of the development of its greatest
states. In new country the settlers
come from everywhere. Some are what
they appear to be, and others are far
from what they pretend TO be. Through
q course Of years, a steady, unilaSSlng
process OF Sitting is pursued. it often
happens, as ever old westerne- Kee. y
remembers, that the most vocal pioneer
gradually gives place to the more prac-
teal and IGss voluble one. Tie sitting
process, this sieveful of humanity agi-
tated well, is nothing more or less than
the developm IN Of community.
This is true not acne of the small town
and the city, but OF the state, and n the
latter instance l. that illustrated by lh-
erratic and constant change OF their ma
1ional represent 8-iy Is by the western I.Cc-
Ile, while the older communiti $ Of the
east continue to return and return a con-
gresham or United States senator, SO
long as he succeeds in promoting his con-
etituents' prosperity, which long service
enables him to do. For the same reason
there is less intensity and uncertainty to
politics IN the east than there is in the
west.
But most Of the western states, being
wholly occupied with this evolutionary
and highly imperative matter of self-de-
velopment, have necessarily neglected
their sectional Industrial advantages. As
the men in the western cities had first TO
become acquainted with one another, and
as the cities in the states had first to be-
come acquainted with one another to ac-
complish a more perfect state govern
ment, so now, the complete industrial de-
velopment Of the west lies in the states
getting acquainted with one another, as
the men in the cities and the cities in the
state have, through the shifting process.
The mississippi country has just
taken its first Industrial and commercial
step. United it IS great enough to insist
on full payment of its wage, to open new
and greater markets. to remedy errors in
transportation, in a word, not only to rec
tify Determinations but to develop enire-
ly new and affirmative advantages. And
the west is perfecting its ornaiztion.
No state in the Union has localized Ire
attention of the nation upon its progress
sive push and indomiJable undertakings
more frequently than Kansas, nor has
any of the s,sterhood Of states IN 50 short
e time, through diniot tiles. measured u
TO the standard Of agricultural CONNER
rial and social supremacy that marks the
Bhort political life of Kansas and srowns
the untiring effort and dauntless ambi-
ton of her people with an unexampled
success While this Is history, there comes
now an opportunity for the people OF
southwestern Kansas to impress the whole
Trans Mississippi country with the great
ness of the state, its commerce. agricul-
1ure, schools and social life, and her de-
STABILITY as a home for the western fam
lily.
Thre will be present at the next session
of the Trans Mississippi Commercial con-
Eress, which meets at Wichita May 81 to
June 8, 1889, the most influential men of
every state and territory west of the Mis-
sissirpi river, and many leading men Of
the east, and Kansas viii send delegates
TO this congress, consisting Of her best
citizens. from every commercial organiza-
tion, evey city and county n me state.
Under the rules Of the congress the COVER
nor may appoint ten delerales: ca h
mayor may appoint one delegate. AMI ore
additional delegate for each E.J0) :n0aoi;-
ants; each commercial org3nlzalol lray
appoint one delegate and one additional
for each fifty members. Every person au-
thorized TO make these anroiutuer Is
should do so at orce and notify J. Hud-
son Mcknight, sec-eoG-y OF the congress.
In this city. Kansas could then leceNe
these distinguIs d visitors t~0m abtCau
with that hospitality and llrgeness OF
soul 50 characteristic Of Ter Teoule. She
gould impress these man with her import
unce as a state and thus enlist thei- in
5erest in the common cause If "Eq ita-
bic rates 10 tidewa-er," rr1i,aols mar
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