The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-13

1lOn OOlidIS IOr their OUTLET, SSSS dAAo
poultry last year. six millions more
than the government paid for the
Louisiana Purchase, that vast tract
which comprises one-third of the ter
ritory of these United States.
A Train From Topeka to New York.
The drouth of 1911 was the worst
| in the history of Kansas, yet the to-
| tai farm income was a newly created
wealth of million dollars day
| The live stock and grain alone If
| reaching from Topeka to New York
City.
We have million acres and more
| of virgin soil hungering for. human
Multiplied wealth in raw materials
yet untouched, bound1ess areas or
artesiap rivers and lakes underlie the
surface of western Kansas land, ready
bounteous harvests where none grew
before. Our natural resources, agents
for Industrial progress, are appealing
for more hands to release and develop
state and bring added comforts to
our citizenship.
The destinies of the human race
have been moulded by men who an
ticipate the completion of the Panama
Canal. The attendant favorable rail-
road rates that follow water trans
portation will re-mould the CONNER
cial destiny of the Middle West and
Kansas will pulsate with renewed ag-
ricultural and Industrial activity. New
avenues of trade and new markets
will bring multitudes of men seeking
our rich agricultural domain and
Kansas will be the gamer by the pros
perity and wealth that an increased
population brings.
A limited, but magnificent citizen
ship is developing the riches that
universe has laid at our feet An
al1-wise Creator has done everything
Z nVI1I fov hut mn eff
awaken to the possibilities of our
State; to farm more scientifically an
almost virgin soil; and to develop by
irrigation acres of western lands
alfalfa, broom corn, sorghum and
kaffir corn. We must give our raw
materials the force of value and by
industrial ingenuity transform them
into those things required by man.
Urges Building of Roads.
We should build permanent dirt
roads and bridges that will outlast
the day and generation of the builder.
We should have storage reservoirs of
unlimited capacity in the western part
of the State to insure against crop
| failure, and by this additional means
of irrigation inspire the cultivation OF
that rich though now neglected soil.
To further maintain our reputation
for progressiveneSs, each county,
through which the Santa Fe Trail
the links of that Transcontinental
highway that will unite Washington
with San Francisco and make Kansas
the commercial center of industries
: to throb with Industrial as we'll as
agricultural life. We want bigger
cities and more industries. We want
to build for our state and build per-
sister state, Throw wide our gates
and let 1t be emblazoned upon every
ray of sunshine as it rises in the east
and sets upon the other horizon, that
whosoever will may come, come to
land of peace, prosperity and content
ment; to a soil as fertile as the valley
of the Nile, as full of possibilities as
the Garden of Eden and as beautiful
as an all-wises Creator and fashion
The completion of the Panama canal
will speedily change the commercial
! map of the new as well as the old
cial activity will beat against the Dor
ders of our state. The time is rapidly
approaching when we must grasp
these new conditions and make Kan
sas a part of this -Pan-Amer1can prog
reSs.
The development of a state depends
upon those who plan and those who
carry. With good roads the whole
year round, giving our farmers mar
ket each of the twelve months in the
year, with the competition of water
and rail rates, with greater tonange for
those who carry as intensified farming
becomes a fact, there will be an in
crease of wealth for our citizens and
greater dividends for the common
, carrier, and together they who plant
and they who carry will share alike
this new prosperity that is waiting at
our door.
We need the get-together spirit
cryStallized in KanSanS who will COM
prehend this new swing of the indus
Ill, =, vii 50. 60
that the hands of the clock do not
turn back nor the pendulum cease to
vibrate, and that every tick marks an
onward step in our statewide develop
who build new industries and sow new
cereals adapted to the soil and the
climatic conditions of Kansas.
More Business and Less Politics.
Kansas needs more business and
less politics: more pulling together
and less pulling asunder; a building
up policy instead of destructive
policy. Let politics take a back seat
and business builders take the reins
aid drive a while. The man who takes
I'D a campaign of state development
regardless of party will command the
everlasting gratitude of q grateful
public. To inspire some new public
enterprise, build a permanent road,
deepen the channel of some navigable
river, and thus become a permanent
factor in state building is better than
the transitory honor of political
preferment. We need more men
who will make brick out of clay and
with those brick pave a. street, fashion
a home, erect a hospital, construct a
church, build school, and with the
same brick lay the foundation upon
which the superstructure of state
shall be builded that will endure until
time shall be no more. Let us have
less legislation. less politics, less par
tisanship. and more of the get-togeth-
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