The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1879-08-28
From the Chicago Inter-Ocean
4 LIAR LOOSE.

He Halls From KENTUCKY, Bur He Is
TRAVELLING IN KANSAS.
WICHITA, August II, 1879.
A correspondence from this city to the
Louisville C0arier-,joUrndi, dated July
22d. and signed by one A. w. Grisman,
is being copied extensively by the South
ern press. 1t contains the grossest Ii
bells upon the State of Kansas, agricul-
turally, financially, and morally. The
notorious character of the author has
proven no bar 10 the publicity which
the press of that section would readily
give to base SANDER upon people
whose humanity would feed. nurse and
clothe the starving, sick and half-naked
human beings who have fled to their
borders for shelter and protection from
the barbarities Of Southern chivalry.
The fact that Wichita, the home of
GrismaD, was perhaps the first city west
of the Mississippi to respond with gem
erous aid TO the cry of distress from
stricken Memphis IN 1873. and on the
night Of August oath telegraphed the
Towards to draw upon her for $500,
which draft was promptly horored, and
much more was frequently added to her
donations. was wholly insufficient to re-
strain the Memphis Appeal from copy
ing what il knew to be false of us-"The
women are half clothed. and the men
go barciooted or the Streets This.
however. is but in accordance with the
usual spirit of gratitude shown from that
direction for charity, clemency, and
mercy shown them in times of direst
need.
But what shall we say when such pa
pers as the Chicago Tribune, which
knows, or ought to know better, join
in this libclous attack upon a State that
contributes so much to the prosperity
of Chicamo-a State that in 1873, bv ac-
tual figures. poured into hcr lap upward
of 20.000.000 bushels of wheat. over So
900 head of fat cattle, and twice as many
fat hogs, besides other millions of bush
els of wheat. corn and oats. and other
thousands upon thousands of cattle. hogs
and sheep into other markets: In the
face of this. the Chicago Tribune virtu-
ally indorses the statement made of
Kansas. 1T is a failure in every partic-
ular in farming
II is not the people of Kansas who are
to suffer most by these false and mali
cious reports. 1t is that class of persons
in the over-crowded portions of the
East and South who have been over
half lifetime struggling vainly against
the tide. and who desire now TO pull up
stakes and seek more healthful climate
more fertile soil, more congenial. en-
terprising and dasliing people. These
are the persons who. having been lured
TO Kansas by the gittering and truthful
statements of their former neighbors
and friends who have preceded them
hifher. are now to be thrown into doubt
and uncertainty by the diabolical vapor-
ings of this characterless scribbler
Scores of inquiries are pouring in with
every mail to know if it is true ac-
count. Did all inquirers live in Chicago
we could readily refer them to reliable
men for answers to the question. is
Kansas fraud on large scale!" and
are all her people destitute and with
out money!.
We would have them ask Your mer-
chants whose wares. filing cars labelled
kansas, roll ont upon every train. We
would have them inspect yonr elevators
loaded with Kansas grain; your stock !
yards crowded with Kansas cattle, hogs |
and sheep. We would have them ask |
your banks, whose paving tellers would |
tomorrow honor the checks of Kansas |
tepositors 10 the extent of millions |
Should their assurances not be sufficient |
We would refer them 10 the three great |
companies who are pushing /
their trunk lines into Southern Kansas
u fast "a money and muscle can bring /
hem. and the other railroad companies
whose branches are rapidly forming a
of iron across the State.
One statement of the correspondent |
We shall not deny--..The production is
.reat in rascality" We do boast the
hampton liar of the worlsl since the
laws of Munchausen, and we challenge
he coming centuries to match him
but his boosted birthplace.
near Louisville" and his thirty wears
experience under the drippings of the
could have qualified
i'm for so efficient tool for that paper
which Is using him rs SORT of scare
row TO frighten back Southern refl-
ICES fFern the lHxurisnt corn-iields Of
H. W. LEWIS.