The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1905-09-08
NEVER GET SCARED OUT.
A POINT FOR THE WESTERN
KANSAS OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
II Things Don't Happen to C0,ue
Your Way at First, Don't Leave
You Can Succeed

IF I had my way about it would
settle western Kansas with men who
have the Kansas seal blown in them, -
= remarked E H Madison, candidate
for congress from the Seventh dis
trfct II mean By that that the peO-
pie VINO expect to make a success Of
farming in western Kansas should
know. something about the conditions
and should not be frightened when
they meet with failure The only
people who understand this are PEG
pie who have lived IN Kansas fOr
more than ten, or say fifteen, years
Judge Madison was talking about
his part OF the state and was telling
OF the wonderful prosperity it was
enjoying. incidentally he told Of the
new people who were coming in and
buying land because they had heard
Of the great crops raised in the past
few years and the cheapness Of the
land.
Z like to see the people come from
any place" he said, but the people
who viii do best are the people who
know what to expect and how TO
farm according to the conditions Of
the country. We have had good
times and they may continue and
they may not If we have a few bad
years the new people, that is, the
people who have never lived IN the
western part OF the state or IN kan
sas, will pick up their things and
leave. I am afraid Of the effect Of
a bad year. That is why made the
remark that would like TO see
the western part Of the state settled
by Kansans.
The Ransan knows what to ex-
pect. He knows that he should not
get discouraged no matter what hap
pens. He has been through the mill
and he can not be frightened by dry
weather or by a complete failure Of
crops. He knows that the next year
will make up for everything he has
lost More than that he knows how
to farm so that he will not have
complete failure. When the western
part Of the state was first settled the
class Of people were not the kind that |
was wanted. Many Of them gave up |
and went away and il was the best 1
thing that they could have done The
good man who knew how to farm and /
understood his business remained and /
is the strong man of the country to- |
day. He is what is called rich. But |
he did not get it in day It takes |
Just as long to learn how to do things /
in the west as it does in the esat- The /
man who remained learned and now /
profits by his knowledge
In speaking Of the effects Of the /
boom which is now on in western i
Kansas, Judge Madison said that |
many people had been made rich by /
force Of circumstances and they were /
not the people who were really en-
titled to the benefit Of the greatly in
creased price in real estate
Il know Of men who simply had to 1
buy land when it was dirt cheap
They did not want it, but had to take
it. It was this way. A great many
men, after the people had about all
left the country, fenced in land and
used it for grazing purposes The
real estate men would get hold OF
pieces and would compel the men
who had it fenced to buy it or take
away the fence. The land was worth
almost nothing, but a very little
would tempt q real estate man TO
push the deal The cattle men bought
when they had to. I know one man
who bought a lot of land for $1,000
He sold it this year for So, goo That
was not all the land he had to buy,
either.
There are many such cases all
over the western part Of the state
Mr. Madison is confident that ev-
cry county in western Kansas will be
a great wheat producing county He
does not hold out that corn can be
raised successfully.
The main point is that farmers are
farming in the right way They pay
attention to little things and they
know when and how to do thing
I am afraid Of the man from the east
because II he meets with bad year
and goes back east he will do more
harm than if he stays away. People |
should not 90 to western Kansas with
the notion that they are going TO get
something for nothing. 1t takes work
just as it does in any country