Show OPTIMISM I Jim Lane of Kansas Did you on over oyer overhear overhear hear of hh him 11 During D me tue Kansas troubles of the fifties when there was a strife and war between the slavery pro-slavery and slavery anti people as to who should con control trot Kansas Kans and Nebraska The slavery pro headed by such men as Quantrell and the Free soldiers by John Brown and Jim Lane Tho The soil was rich and It was a prize eagerly sought There were ere no railroads The country was covered with prairie grass It was the land of the buffalo the antelope the coyote coote and the desperado with witha a big contingent of hostile I Indians There were no markets and the country was filling up with emi emi- grants Murder was on every side and towns were burned and life was not as rosy at It might ha hue e been lieen though a newness and adventure was a lure in those days ra leUC was a big town on the frontier Jim Lane the orator lived there People would get discouraged and blue ue and be be on the point of leaving the tIle country coun tr try and Jim Lane would stroll down the street t get set up on a larrel barrel at a street corner and with eloquent nt words and amid matchless enrage l toll tell them of the great natural wealth cf the country and urge tn tl fo o sta stay and acid make homes and defy the whole slavery pro crowd and aud when b he Ire would uld finish his speech the whole psychology would be changed In a twinkling The people had yew rew courage and would swear b by Kansas Kansas Kansas Kan Kan- sas and they stayed and that is the sort of people that manes maKes up ill the population of the the great state of Kansas Kansas Kansas Kan Kan- sas today They are There Is a lesson in this Tho The Uintah Uin- Uin tah basin is here with all of its relies its iches of a natura fertile soil soil practical y Inexhaustible In fertility with frith the most abundant 0 or water rights of any country countr in the whole arid and region The pioneer nays are pass pass- lug Ing away with a promise of r railroads In the near future and transcontinental trans trans-conti- neutal lines s on either side of us the time cheapest good land m to the whole western country countr and opportunities wide open and smiling at us and yet et some people cannot see anything but pessimism The They have shut the thedoor thedoor thedoor 1 door of observation of comparison of reason All the they can see Is a pessimistic bug and time tIle splendors of opportunities that smile at them and invite them to partake o of they hey hl y ysee see not at all Too bad a man is punished for what he know and for what he refuses to see is no malice to such a penalty It Itis Itis Itis is merely the effect of oC a man running running running run run- ning up against an unconvertible fact He will leave the country and aud audgo go where laud land is no better and rill vill pay ten times as much for it and as ashe ashe ashe he has no money to buy on the outside outside outside out out- side he will be without a home when he could easily have had a good home in the basin His penalty is to become a mere newer of or wood and carrier of water for somebody else I If It the the could come around and hit some som of or those men over the head with stuffed a club and bring them to rational senses it might b be e a a. blessing to them Ulem When a man is at the tho bottom ottom It t is a struggle struggle struggle gle to rise That means hardships for awhile and md industry And when cheap lands with wilh first class water rights are at hand It is the I i part of wisdom to take in some o of It and make himself a home He hasn't Jime Lane to stir him up but from all that Is said he ho ought to see the golden opportunities in the Uintah basin L. L L. L A. A H. H Since last week the price of honey has genie gone up and amid we are happy to say the flow is increasing The producer er is now able to sell for the five h-e gallon can can This information comes from front a producer |