CHAPTER XXI.
It is now one-third of a century since Kansas began to be settled.
Great as has been the progress of the States of this Union within this period, the progress of Kansas has been exceptionally and peculiarly so.

Its chief glory is not in its large agricultural and mineral resources; it is not in its railroads and lines of telegraph; it is not in the rapidly increasing population of educated men and women, but it is in this, that it was not only the first State in the nation, but the first Commonwealth in the world, to solve the problem of the drink evil, the giant curse of Christendom, by incorporating prohibition into its fundamental law.
In union there is strength.

Jesus said so.

He said, "Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation." And so evidently does this principle commend itself to the common sense of men, that we have engraved on our national ensign the motto, "_E Pluribus Unum_" -- one out of many.
How did such growth in Kansas come to be?
Not in division, but in union.

We have thought it would do us good to look squarely in the face that hard, cruel, and bloody period when it seemed the business of the people to cut each other's throats.