Excerpt from Statistics and Information Concerning the State of Missouri: And Its Cheap Farming Lands, the Grazing and Dairy Region, the Mineral and Timber Resources, the Unsurpassed Fruit Lands, and Limitless Opportunities for Labor and Capital, With Compliments of the General Passenger Department of the Missouri Pacific Railw

Missouri, on account of its central location, is destined for a commanding position in the sisterhood of States. The geographical position of a State or country has as great a bearing on the importance of that State or country financially, politically and socially as all other influences combined. Why is New York the Empire State? Why is its influence felt so strongly in all matters of national importance? Why do the sister States look to New York to lead? Why are the political and financial policies of the country dictated from New York? While the United States was confined to the region east of the Allegheny mountains, and the commerce of the country west was of no importance, Virginia, on account of its central location, exerted the controlling influence in the affairs of the nation. Her soil was superior to that of New York, her climate was more genial, and her natural adaptation to acquiring wealth in all branches of industry surpassed that of New York. Her statesmen and great men were made greater because they were citizens of Virginia, and their influence was augmented by the proud position of the great State which they represented. But how great the change. Virginia has lost nothing. In fact, her gain in spite of a disastrous war, has been steady. But how is it with New York? When the Star of Empire was pushed over the barriers of the Alleghany mountains, and the army of emigration took possession of the rich farming lands in the Mississippi valley, the streams of commerce and humanity commenced to flow east and west, instead of north and south.

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