The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-04-06
That Ola Hen.

uPOu ITS OutkOAukS duu luCOmlQRB.
1t has assumed to suggest what was
proper and what was improper for
its well being. Especially is this
true as TO the railroad develop
ments of this favored or unfavored
region Without going over the
history of all the railroad plans
that Emporis has devised for this
regioD,we call attention to the plan
and purpose of this last ene,the one
which is now being pressed up
on the people of Cowlsy county
especially.
EmpOria has organized q rail-
road company. That company
mas mapped out q main line
with branches which either ira.
verse or penetrate the counties OF
Lyon, Greenwood, Elk, Chautau-
qua, Butler, COwley, Sedgwick and
sumner, with the Indian Territory
for hitching post. But this is not
the worst of IL. The managers OF
this bristling plan ask that all the
counties or townships along the
main line and branches shall, be-
fore work commences on the road,
vote seven hundred and eighty
thousand dollars of county and
township bonds, iatue them and
send them TO New York city to be
neld until the road is built. And IL
law suits of any kind prevent the
road from being built the bonds
are still to remain there until the
company gets through with its law
suits. Don't this thing open rather
rich? Cowley county Is an egg that
will not consent to be covered in
this kind of style. This chicken
proposes 20 be hatched out. Please
iOn't call for eggs faster than you
IAN cover them, old hen.-Winf1eld
Courier.
Now what's the matter with You,
Bantam? What has Emporia
done to provoke your terrible
wrath? Emporia is trying to help
build q railroad over q favorite
route. This road, if built, will not
help Emporia any more than 1t will
help any other county seat along
its proposed line. It will not help
EOporia any more than it will
Winfield. 1t is true that Emporia
has taken 8 special interest in the
growth of Southwestern Kansas,
aud lie delighted with its prosperity.
Only q few years ago Emporis was
Q border town. Does the Courier
suppose the people here were mar
row-sighted and narrow-minded
enough TO want to remain in that
condition? Was it not natural to
want the Southwest settled7 Did
not the settlement and growth OF
the Southwest help Emporia2 Did
it not help every other town in this
region? Don't we make money in
the long run by working together
and helping each other rather than
by pulling different ways, and by
over small matters that
concern only the fen. Emporia has
helped all in her power in the grand
work of filling the Southwest with
people, and thereby developing her
resources. She can do more and
will do more. We call the atten-
ton of the Courier to the fact that
this "old hen" has spread herself
considerably, and has never tried
to cover an egg she did not hatch.
OF course she has met with tempo
rary hindrances. She has had to
step aside occasionally to scratch for
aud pick up bugs, and if she don't
hatch this nest of railroad eggs
soon it will be we'll enough for the
editor of the Courier to get out of
the way. He will be in danger of
being gobbled. 1t remains to be
seen whether the selfish interests of
one little rooster are going to defeat
the interests of whole a valley.
We wish the Courier man was as
liberal as the town he pokes his lit
tie fun at. There would be g rail-
road down the Walnut valley with
in the next fifteen or eighteen
months. We are sorry he has lived
in Kansas so long aud Is not able
TO see beyond his own nose. Win
field, or rather that portion of il
by the Courier, wants q
road TO cross the Walnut from east
to west 1T that town. In this way
it hopes to keep what it sup
poses to be rival towns from getting
u railroad. Now that lie the source
from which comes the terrifically
article above quoted. Long
ago when the editor of the Courier
was wasting his sweetness aud
greatnenss in the Kaw valley |;
" hen he was probably learning his
fret lessons in writing those witty
articles at the expense of neighbOr-
ing towns, the people of EmpOria
were sending men TO Washington
to help shape the land grants so
that this section should get her
share. 1t was through her infu-
ence, more than that of any other
town, that the routes of the II. <.
s. r. and the Santa Fe were brought
into and through Southern and
Southwestern Kansas. She is now
willing to help other enterprises.
She has labored for her own inter-
ests aud in doing so has helped 9TH
ers. She will continue to do so.
She has never assumed to suggest
what towns shall do. This is
She has gone ahead and
done the best she could, and let
other towns do the same. There is
now no attempt to suggest to
Winfield. 1t can do just ct 1t pleas
es. Bat let us tell the Courier one
thing. 1t is our opinion that the
Kansas City Emporla & South
ern enterprise will go ahead wheth-
er it writes stories about old hens
or not. Had Winfield and one or
Two other towns used the enter
prise Emporia has always shown
the Walnut valley would long ago