Kansas as She Has Grown Up: And Something about Montgomery County, Her Most Marvelous Section and Its Natural Resources and Industrial Development

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Excerpt from Kansas as She Has Grown Up: And Something About Montgomery County, Her Most Marvelous Section and Its Natural Resources and Industrial Development "What's the matter with Kansas?" The injection of this query and William Allen White's answer to it into the political campaign of 1896 was the dash of humor that set the whole nation laughing and made White one of our literary celebrities. Whatever Kansas has been or has done in the past, she has never been humdrum nor uninteresting. The struggle of her quarreling parents of the North and South for her possession, in her infancy, focused all eyes on the territory that has since become the central state of the Union, It was then that America's greatest pulpit orator exhorted his congregation to send Sharpe's rifles rather than bibles to the nascent commonwealth. Those were the days of John Brown and Quantrell, of the Lecompton constitution and guerilla raids, of midnight murder and daylight conflagration. A few years later Kansas came into the limelight as a mendicant. Grasshoppers had devoured every tender twig, the drouth had parched her prairies and the blood-thirsty red men and fiery siroccos had completed the work of her impoverishment, until in every hamlet in the east the hat was passed for her and donations of money, bread and castoff clothing solicited. Another decade rolled by and it was the mortgage and money lender that were sapping her resources and retarding her growth. The eastern capitalist was forced to forego his interest on the unfruitful acres, and the holders of maturing obligations had no option except to take the titles of undesired holdings at the lonesome sales the sheriffs held in ever-increasing number at "the south door of the court house." And the metropolitan press moralized much on the plight of the confiding capitalist, and indited long homilies on the innate untrustworthiness of the Kansas citizen. Again in the nineties, the curtain rises with Kansas the national joke - the clown in the comedy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.