The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1873-12-25
For the EAGLE.
We Want to Live,

EDITOR EAGLE: read in your pa
per last week that the Patrons of Hus-
bandry are monopoly. Ii is no more
than | have been looking for some
outsider to attack Us in some such a
way. We do not expect our acts to
please every one. mean to say that
no action of the order is a monopoly.
We only asI, for justice, and we are
going to have it, too, sooner or later.
A. for it being injurious to the inter-
ests Of both country and city it is not.
We mean to support the city so far as
it ought to be. We do dot mean to
support every man OF woman that
comes to Wichita in the store business.
There are too many already, not only
here but everyw here. Wichita is ahead
of the county now III stores, saloons
and hotels. Let them go to work on
their claims as we do. They nearly all
took claims. What does a single man
consume that a farmer raises here!
Scarcely anything, aud there are good
many such men trying TO keep store.
OF course they are not all single. 1t
appears that almost every one that can
raise one or two thousand dollars and
a little credit will go to some town aud
open store. Why does he do il: Be
cause the profit is an inducement 10
leave his honorable position of labor.
and he can 1--we without hard work.
Now this is too much SO with the
rising generation, not excepting the
farmers sons. Now we are called
MONOPOLY because we ask few mer-
chants TO sell to us for a fair profit, and
we get the answer in some cases, 1--WE
will do il, and in other cases. such as
manufacturers aud lumber merchants,
call meetings and form a ring against
us. saving that they will not sell to us
onIy at the regular retail prices. But
there are enough honorable merchants
and manufacturers that will sell to us
for Il fair profit, and you will see it.
too. in time. DO not be deceived by
those rings. for the honorable mer-
chants who offer to sell 10 us for fair
profit know that we cannot afford to
pay from forty 10 one hundred per cent.
profit any longer, and are willing to
deal with Us on the square. As for
fixing the compensation for the pro-
ducts of the soil. should like to know
who has better right If YOU do not
like TO take it at that price you have
the same right that we have, find some
one else that will let YOU have it al
your price but offer him enough SO
that he can live at il the same rs we
have done. not offering fifteen cents
per bushel for corn, because any man
with common sense knows it cannot
be raised for that But the best thing
to do with corn is to feed it. We look
for the capitalists of Wichita TO do
something in the city to help the farm
ers and to help themselves. What
UOOu Is Il ipltN h'NNi
to a farmer. when there were two good
hotels already, besides lots of smaller
ones. Ii there was enough money
raised in the city by Il joint-stock
company to build such II building,
which call poor Investment, AT pres
eut. they certainly could have built a
good custom grist mill, which would
not only be benefit to the farmers but
a greater one to the city, and some 9th
er mandatory that would be benefit
to all. Itwould have shown encourage
ment. As il is we have 10 take our
wheat about fifty miles to get it ground
and YOU are doing the same by sending
for your flour; but suppose they will
do as they please, the same as we shall
do. JOHN Is. BRINLEY.