Year: 1875


and in many cases newspapers.
We suppose this latter proposition is true, mas
much as a circular has recently been sent to the
press by the managers of the Kansas Pacific
Railway, with as much assurance as if it owned
the press, and had only to command, to insure
obedience. One of these circulars came to u.s.
We are not aware that we are under any ooiiga-
tions to that Railway, that we should labor to
obtain business for it at the expense OF truth
truth just now fearfully palpable to the peo-
pie of Eastern Kansas. We do not own any
stock in that Railroad; and as powerful lnnu-
ence is supposed to attach to a little advertise
ment or free pass, we are able to say that we
are not contaminated by an advertisement lor
the road, nor has It made an exception IN our IL
vor of the compact entered into to withhold pass
es from the sponges of the press. This leaves US
entirely free and untramelled TO tell the truth'
even in disobedience to the commands OF the
Kansas Pacific Railway; and notwithstanding
the circular is marked Confidential, and closes
with arequest not to publish, we cannot convey
an edequate idea of it without inserting IL nsht
here, to wit:


'0O" KANSAS PACIFIC RAILWAY, }


CF<rRA PASSENGER FOFICE


Kansas Kansas, May ASaJ- }


DE.RsrR address YOU this letter upon the presump
tiOn that have sincere regard ior IN ie nv @ IN, anu
future prosperity Of Kansas and esPeG@s @ @ ear % %
were less affected iuurously by grasshoPpers
bou, these and such articles copied
tensyey throughout the Union until tho impression now
that Kansas i not desirable place for 1t is
scarcely to that the and agitation
ders and we have set back least years in
oevsrd march towards aequiTin large Fopnfaton and
O 900 souls per ask your assistance in attempt
ing eradicate the impression prevailing in regard
TO our country and would suggest:


Ist That you use your influence prevent the publ
cation of any article relative to grasshOppers local


ad II any one has remarkable good crop any kind
dence and full description.


3D. Fill your newspapers with articles descriptive OF
the prosperity of immediate neighbOrhOOd and of the
yield per of your best farms giving names of propr
etors locations OF farms. &c.


send me marked copies Of the newspapers containing
these articles and will arrange and publish them and
distribute them extensively throughout the country and
endeavor regain lost prestige, and prove to the
world that the of empire should still be westward
tO-Kansas.


An emigration Office has established by
pany liO4 Union avenue Kansas City, Mo- immediate
y opposite the Union Depot land into which all trains
and Is in charge of Mr. A Roedelheimer who has had
long experience in connection with Kansas lands Send
me. by express choice specimens of grains fruits
vegetables building stone &c, and will exhibit them
with and that they extensively noticed by
ly arriving and departing the depot This will be
very effective aid towards restoring good name as an
agricultural State and ask the hearty cooperation of the
| intelligent agriculturists throughout the State
Very respectfully,


BEVERLEY r. KEN,
Genl Passenger Agent
P.S.-PleasS do not publish this circular.
In reply, We will say that we are well aware
that the grasshopper has been of incalculable
damage to Kansas. Because of the pest, West
ern Kansas had to keep beggars in the East
throughout all last Winter, to keep from starry
| ing; and because of the seed of that pest, East
ern Kansas is in a fine way to have to do the
| same thing next Winter We know that it
is retarding emigration, and cutting down rail
road travel; but if we stated otherwise, we
would be writing ourself down liar in the face
of every man, woman and child in Eastern Kan
sas and Western Missouri.


We cannot use our influence to prevent the
publication of local grasshopper items, because
that is the principal topic of local conversation,
and the only thing which now interests our peO-
pie


No person hereabouts has remarkably good
crop of anything-not evenweeds-and therefore
We cannot describe them. A woman up on the
river brought load of lettuce and onions to
town, the other day, having been compelled to
clear her garden at once, TO save it from the
grasshoppers. That Is the ouly "garden truck "
we have heard of being raised, this Spring.


We cannot fill our paper With articles descrip-
tive of the prosperity of our immediate neghbor-
hood, give any names, for the fact is that all
here is gloom, and no prosperity. Were we to
tell such lies for the sake of making business for
a railroad, by enticing people to Kansas under
false pretences, we would deserve to be kicked
across the Missouri River by three thousand
farmers of DOniphan County, who look upon des-
olate fields, late so promising, and who are now
wondering how they are to keep their stock alive,
or get seed to put in a crop of late corn-if the
grasshoppers leave in time.


We are in hopes that the grasshoppers will
leave by the Goth of this month, and that farm
ers can still raise good crop of corn. But, with
here and there scattering exception, the small
grain and early corn of Doniphan County are
total loss; and the same is in great measure
true of the whole of Eastern Kansas, for one hun
dred miles west of the Missouri River. We are
as anxious for better state of affairs as any 9TH
er person can possibly can be; and just as soon
as the facts will bear out in reporting more
prosperous times, We shall be happy to do so.
Tba T0- ne ;Sa 4