The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-22
KANSAS is IN LEAD
Has 1t "Ono Eastern States in
Every Way.
One JayhaWker Boy Worth
Three Fasteners.
p. {. LAUGRLIN GIVES VIEWS
An Insight Into Financial Con-
ditiOnS in New York.
Kansas and Her Reputation on
Broadway.

| LauRnl1n,
for state treasurer in the last state
campaign. has written an interesting
account of recent trip he and Mrs
Laughlin made recently in the east.
| The impressions CLEANED by this Kan
| sas man indicate the sentiment that
| exists in the eastern states toward
Kansas and the comparison between
| the strong, healthy, prosperous condi-
| lions in Kansas and Kansas homes and
the narrow and sometimes ridiculous
situations on the Atlantic coast.
The LaughIin letter follows:
while Boston and New York are
wonderful cities and interesting to a
| Kansan, we We're very glad to get back
| to Kansas. am firmly convinced that
| the boy born in New York is handi-
capped all his life and 1 wouldn't give
| one Kansas farmer boy for twenty
| New York City boys. The Kansas lad
| knows more in ten mi ties than New
| York boy does in three years. Why, in
New York, even the grown ups cannot
tell north from south. It's almost inn
possible to find any one in New York
who can tell you the directions of the
compass.
Il visited the largest bank in Amer
lea, the National City Bank of New
York, and, by the way, the first twelve
persons of whom inquired for it's To-
cation, and among them We're mer-
chants, policemen and news boys, did
not know, never heard of it, in fact
didn't know New York had the largest
bank in the country. A Topeka or
Kansas City newsie can tell you right
off the reel anything you may ask
THE National City bank, by the way,
ances deposited with it by the banks
of the 46 states of the United States,
and Kansas helps out considerably.
Il was in the New York clearing
house and saw $50 million dollars
worth of checks cleared in 20 minutes.
1.-TWO hundred and fifty millions of gold
weigh 500 tons. Lucky we use checks,
isn't it?)
A Football" Stock Exchange.
WAS a spectator of the actions of
the famous New York Stock Exchange,
where men and fortunes have been
squeezed like lemons and cast out
when fully Slapped, their antics remind
ing me of the Kansas-M Missouri Thanks
giving football game.
Saw Wall street, Coney Island and
the landing where the transportation
companies unload the immigrants. and
marveled as I saw the throngs pour
INTO our land, at how quickly they be-
come Americanized after breathing the
atmosphere of this country
1 want to say that Kansas sur
passes new YORK IN everything except
skyscrapers, and as we are voung we
may get the skyscrapers in time Kan0
saS people are better looking and better
dressed, and on the whole, live far
better.
Boston Is HospitabIe
Boston is the historic city of Amer
I'd ana contrary to expectations. the
bostohlans are wonderfully hospit-
aole people. Was surprised to find
Scs L..
Irish extraction.
stopped day in Washington and
saw congress in session and heard
several speeches by congressman and
sendtorS' saw the Kansas delegation
ana consider them far above the aver
age delegation there. In fact. orr on
tire delegation stands high in wash
lngton and are given much consid-
Grafton by the cabinet and the other
members. I would also state that the
Kansas delegation is the best 1ookine
and the best dressed of any in WASH
ington. New York bankers are not
throwing any bouquets at the new
"Cy bill. as it is radical in SO much
as IL takes the rest of the country
into consideration and does not alone
consult the wishes of New York as
have previous deliberations by the
national law makers. The bill will
pass, but will perhaps be modified
slightly and have the obiectionab1e
will of course pass. Met Governor
Burke of Dakota. now United States
treasurer, and he impressed me as
one of the biggest men at the capital.
Burke is big, broad, capable and
Democratic by nature. Saw a little
bundle of currency in the treasury
and it contained $40,OOO,OO0, but each
bill was for $4,000. The treasurer of
the United States is more democratic
than many of the clerks in the cap
itaI and it's funny what a change a
little Washington job makes with
some men.
I'm Washington everybody knows
about Kansas and her achievements.
In New York, few outside the bank
ers know about US at all I felt like
duckfng one New York merchant
who said: Kansas is near Oklahoma,
isn't it?' The New York bankers
like it and the cashier of one of the
larger New York banks told me he
was praying that New York might
adopt that law at the next session.
The New York bankers also know
that Kansas has the best banking
laws of any state in the Union, and
frankly say so.
Chicago has the second largest
bank in the country. the Continental
and Commercial, and it's fine in
stitution and worth a trip to see.
No Sunlight in New York.
I'm New York and Boston you see
no grass and no trees unless you go
to the parks, as ground is too valu-
able there for anything but tall
buildings. Many children in New
York never see the sun from Janu-
airy to January. Little wonder they
cannot be compared with our rug
ged, bright Kansas boys. After all,
being born in Kansas is a legacy be-
yond computation.
''One thing that surprised me was to
see. from Topeka to New York City,
along almost every mile, men burning
the damaged railroad ties, and in this
age of conservation of resources I