The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-01-17

forth thousands OF barrels of high
grade Portland cement each and ey-
cry day
Natural Resources
The coal, lead and zinc industries
OF the Pittsburg district create more
wealth than the combined gold out
put of these United States. Glass
factories and brick factories dot our
commonwealth, The packing indus
tries hunger for more livestock and
our 10000 miles or railways hum
with increased activity. The farmers
Of Kansas received twenty-one mil
lion dollars for their butter, eggs
and poultry last year, six millions
more than the government paid for
the Louisiana Purchase, that vast
tract which comprises one-third OF
the territory Of these United States
The drouth Of 1911 was the worst
In the history CT Kansas yet the to-
| tai farm income was a newly created
wealth OF million dollars a day.
The livestock and grain alone ii load
ed into cars would make train
reaching from Topeka to New York.
The Untitled Acres
We have a million acres and more
of virgin soil hungering Tor human
skill to shape its agricultural oes.
tiny. Multiplied wealth in raw ma
terials yet untouched, boundles,
areas of artesian rivers and lakes
underlie the surface of Western Kan
sas land, ready to pour forth theh
waters and make bounteous haryests
where none grew before. Our natu.
raj resources, agents for industriai
| progress, are appealing for more
hands to release and develop them
that they may enrich our state AM
bring added comforts to our citizen
ship.
The destinies OF the human race
have been moulded by men who an
tieipate opportunities; so should We
anticipate the completion of the Pan
ana canal. The attendant favorable
railroad rates that follow waite
transportation will re-mould the
commercial dest,ny Of the middle
west and Kansas will pulsate with re-
newed agricultural and industrial ac-
tiyity. New avenues of trade and
new markets will bring multitudes
lof men seeking our rich agricultural
lomain and Kansas will be the gain
er by the prosperity, progress and
wealth and an increased population
| brings.
Creator Kind to Kansas
limited, but magnificent citizen
ship is developing the riches that 8
Mniyerse has laid at our feet. An all
'wise Creator has done everything He
could for Kansas, but we must awak-
en- to the possibilities of our state;
to farm more scientifically an almost
virgin soil; and to develop by irriga-
lion acres of western lands adapted
to the growth of cotton, alfalfa
broom corn, sorghum and Kafir corn
We must give our raw materials the
force of value and by industrial in
genuity transform them into those
things required by man.
We should build permanent dir
roads and bridges thar will outlasl
the day and generation of the build
FER. We should have storage reserves
Of unlimited capacity in the western
Dart OF the state to insure agains
rop failure, and by this additions
meals of irrigation inspire the cult
alton Of that rich though now neg
lected soil
Build for the State
To further maintain our reputation
or progressiyeness, each county
through which the Santa Fe Trai
Winds its way, is individually buiId
ing links of that transcontlnenta
highway that will unite Washington
With San Francisco and make Kan
as the commercial center of indus
ries and investments. We want gu!
tate to thEpb with industrial as wei
Is agricultural life. We want bigge
tiles and more industries, We wan
70 build for our state and build per
nanently. AS some one has said OF
A sister state: Throw wide Oh.
,ates and let it be embla2oned upon
'lvery ray of sunshine as II rises in
The east and sets upon the other h0r-
zon, that whatsoever will may come
,ome to land of peace. prosperity
md contentment to soil as lertil'
IS the valley of the Nile, as full o;
| possibilities as the Garden OF Eden
md as beautiful as an all-wise Crea
or could fashion 1t"
The completion of the Panama
canal will speedily change the COM
merCial way of the new as well as
The old world, and perhaps strange
commercial activity will beat against
he borders of our state The time
rapidly approaching when We must
/ .rasp these new conditions and make
Kansas part of this Pan-Amerlcan
progress.
Depends on improvements
The development of state de-
pends upon those who plant and
those who carry With good road
the whole year round, giving oul
armers a market each Of the twelve
months in the year, with the competi-
tion of water and rail rates. with
yreater tonnage for those who carry
rs intensified farming becomes fact
there will he an increase of wealth
for our citiZeng and gre~ser dividends
or the common carrier, and together
they who plant and they who carry
viii share alike this new prosperlt.
that is waiting at our door.
We need the get-together spirit
crystalized in Kansans who will COM
brehend this new swing OF the indus-
trial pendulum, and who will see to
1t that the hands OF the clock do
not turn back nor the pendulum
| nnaa To vihrntn and have nXerY tick