The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1875-09-30
Kansas City and Kansas.

The Parsons Sun is out in favor of
taking Kansas City into this State and
making it the Missouri Valley metrop-
oils. Why not take in st. Louis at
once? Does the sparkling Milt. mag
| inc that Missouri would consent TO
| losing several millions of taxable prop
| erty or that Congress could be brought
| to favor such scheme! For the State
at large such a game might prove pro-
| fitable enough, but under the present
| apportionment Atchison, Leavenworth
Lawrence and Topeka and their inter-
| tically, and would they not all fight
such a scheme, even should Congress
and Missouri agree to it!
Such talk may do for the father of
the '.lnfant Wonder" but it is too thin
| unless IN the establishing of the State
lines it should turn out that Kansas
City originally lay within the bounds
of Kansas Territory.
Milt., give us rest, and do not stir
up the jealousies of our metropoiiscs
only that you may air your inventive
genius and graspiug powers as writ
ist.- jF,chitd Eagle.
We are not SO sure that Missouri
would not consent TO parting with her.
Kansas City has many jealous rivals in
that State who would be glad 10 get
rid of the ambitious and grasping
young sister al the mouth of the Kaw.
At least we could see ii Barkis is will
lin.
Our friend Of the EAGLE admits
that it would be good thing for the
State of Kansas, but saws that Atcili-
son, LeavenWorth and Lawrence con-
troll legislation in this State, aud that
their rivalries and jealouses will not
permit annexation. IL this be fact
of course we shall not attempt TO an
swer the question. 1t is unanswera-
BILE. If these cities are TO contrive to
keep Kansas City out and then fight
like eats and dogs abont which is to
be the metropolis, and if the State pre-
pares to submit to that sort of thing,
we have nothing more 10 say. Hut we
were OF the Impression that there was
considerable land to the acre in the
great Arkansas Valley, and outside OF
the corporate limits of the cities
named that might think the State big
ger than any existing metropolis with
in her limits. The EAGLE mans head
we know is remarkably level on this
State business, for he is an able-bodied
agriculturist of merit, and helped to
break up the Topeka bottom as a leg
islator years and years ago.-PdrsoDs
San.
Your impressions of the Arkansas
Valley are eminently correct. We
have not only considerable land to the
acl and considerable crops to the land,
but an industrious and wide-awake
population which is increasing so rap
idly that some fine morning the many
mctropolises of the State win wake up
to find that their power has departed
from them. Whether Kansas CITY is
gobbied or not, Milt. Reynolds will live
to announce in the SVR that the large
majority of the population and wealth
of Kansas lies south of line running
east and west through Empo Iia-which
line. by the way, takes in the Infant
Wonder. But .Milt., we did not say that
our cities would fight the proposition.
We only put in Il facetious iuterroga-
ton to that effect. The idea we meant
to convey was that the talk of COB
bling Kansas City was vain, foolish
and impractical. What we want to do
is to control our own railroads by our
own Legislature and the building up
of our own towns will naturally fol
low of necessity.