The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-05-21
Daifn~s aQlc
M. M. MURDOCH. Editor.
KANSAS is NOT A YANKEE STATE.

Kansas was originally esteemed as the Yankee STATE
of the west In the estimation of the Mssouran and OIL
Tho average Southerner the Massachusetts Yankee
WASN'T in If when ptted against the Yankee John
Brown the Beecher Bible and Kansas Emgrant Aid
society. were all of New England origin Theee were
distinctly Yankee yet they did constitute Kansas
Kansas never was Yankee 1t was OF Cosmopolitan hoio
gently from the first AS territory numbered among
its inhabitants the Indian the Shareholder and MS negro
slaves as well as the rabd abotonst, the hre-eater
and the fanatic.
Still the original Kansas was in sense the child OF
Massachusetts, rather than Missouri the product OF
New England rather than of the South
How little the Kansas today is like Massachusetts,
how unlike their peoples be ready and correctly
estimated by single Fortyfve thousand persons
in Massachusetts of men and retired VINO
ever heard of a Kansan retiring? No matter haw valu
able his property or the his accumulatons he
is always found senuouy peggng as for dear life
and he pegs away until he drops in his tracks Cf these
% 600 Massachusetts men and 1900 Massachusetts wo
men who have settled back supposed competency
refraining from further effort the great majority as
shown by the statistics boast comparatively very small
fortunes The majority these economically hVlng
off tho interest Of total sum that would not eqal the
expenditure of many Kansas farmer or business man
for single year OF these retired on competency
Massachusetts people $500 farmers $500 mer-
chants and manufacturers 1876 laborers. These were
all economical savers Few Kansans economical or
saving The New Highlander has learned what it will
take the Kansan one hundred years to learn and
that is the art of living below income In the I'M
applied lands her undeveloped and unuu
lied resources does the Kansan find his warrant for ex
travagance as well his stimulant for continuous effort
The Worlds Work in discoursing on the differences
of the West and East says that there many we'll
TODD people in Kansas in Iowa in Massachusetts
but the West has hereditary habit of saving The
Kansan has yet acquired hereditary habits The
Kansan and the Western generally, goes in more
for making than saving 1t TO the indie
pendent Kansas farmer to the editor of the
Worlds Work puts it, the Western is not working
for mere competency. He working for the love of it
develop country The pioneer energy Of gen
Grafton or two ago has not yet spent itself
The great industries have brought great fortunes
everywhere very much interesting than great
fortunes are the habits of people in using
wealth And the habit of the West while less safe at
times for individuals than the New England habit, is
better for the community. On the same income man in
Kansas will live better Tor faster" if you wild than
man in Massachusetts, He is daring, certain
that soil or factory will continue to give good yields;
and he is more ambitious. lie spends his money
let his children earn it for themselves need be- and
he spends it more freely on his children because they
will be sure to earn
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