The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1879-07-31
BEAMS Is YouK owx EYES.

BEANS Ii YOUR OwN EYES.
Wichita viii yet be heartily ashamed Of her
conduct in the exodus Observation-Disclosures
City Union.
Toicrably free with your opinions! How
much will you back them with:
Supplementary to the above gratuity comes
the unripencss OF some fuzzy-faced smarty,
dribbled through the columns of sunday
Commonwealth. The effervesencc alluded to
is an offensive hodge-podge Of impudence,
execrable gibberish and attempted wit which
would be nauseatIng but for its thinness. No
one, after reading the compound of whisky
drivel, shocking profanity and diluted slang,
| would for a moment question the educational
| advantages of the average idiot asylum for
such as the author, which institutions are
full Of his superiors. mentally and spiritually.
Upon the hypothesis only that an ass will
open his mouth TO any sound from the squeak
Of mouse to the music Of the spheres. can
the brayings Of this Commonwealth correspon-
dent be accounted for, but his lies about and
his insults offered the people Of Wichita, en-
bei!ished as they are by misquoted poetry,
mongrcl Latin and low down epithets. would
lead the unprecedented reader TO think his
brains the product Of Il cross between Zulu
wench and a striped hyena.
Additional to the above insult the Harvey
County Mere deyotes fourth of column to
lies and advice touching this same matter
Not satisfied with his own construction this
this fresh emgran. proceeds to say that
Wichita is run by gamblers and bawdy
houses: that death is carried to many homes
daily by the green ponds every where.
the ..yapor from which dea;h-sinks settles
down over doomed city - and much more
such twaddle. IL we thought such outrage
Gus falsehoods were believed by any body
other than the class of fellows we have just
quoted or that they represented conviction
OF even small minority of the good people
of Newton. we would take pleasure in cor
recting them sing.y and seycraily. The truth
is evident that both article. were begotten Of
innate deprayiiy and love Of SANDER.
The facts of the '.eXoGGs muddle'' We're
given in these columns last week with the
full explanation. If Wichita had been noti-
fed beforehand that dozen or five dozen
refugees were being sent her, or If this city
had been requested to receive ten dozen of
these blacks, the result would have been en-
tirely different. But, as we stated last week,
the Commonwealth stated that fifty had been
shipped here, which was supplemented by
the statement, from what was deemed relia-
bic authority. that four times as many more
would be forwarded within two or three
days. Wichita being nj the terminus of 4
railroad she has larger floating population
to look after than has any other town in the
State with it, consequent and proportionate-
Iy large pauper list Here they congregate
from surrounding counties anxious to get
back east and here they are dumped off a: the
end of the road unable TO proceed further.
The pauper bill, of last quarter alone amount
ed to S6'l.s regularly allowed, to say moth
ing OF numerous private charities. We know
of one man who last year distributed of his
personal means-and he i, not 4 rich man Ell
thcr--oyer $500, and nobody, except the re-
cipicntS. are the wiser Tor it. woman in
this town. who makes her living by sewing,
gave out last winter over $50 20 needy per-
by her needle. We know of several such in
stances. The truth is. the people of Wichita
are charitable and ch;'islian-like. She sent
over 500 of clean cash TO the Howard Asso-
citation last year. There has hardly been a
week since the days Of The COW boys that her
people have not went down into their pock-
ct, for charitable purposes. And did she not
send her mite to the exodus committee:
But all this is unnecessary. Wichita amt
on the '.apologize'' or explain" She pad
dies her own canoe; always has and always
expects 10. She has never asked any odds Of
any town in the State, nor j. She going 10.
She has the necessary charity 10 take care of
a thousand refugees il She feels it her duty
the money TO send them back if any DISPOSE
ton TO impose is manifest, and the pluck 10
stand by her actions. Her people are inde-
pendent, enterprising, and progressive. who
will not he held accountable for her own Of
ficials' acts. further than said officials carry
out their instructions. much less can they be
dictated to by up-staTt. irresponsible news
paper correspondents, or pilgrim editors who
have not been long enough in the State to
vote. The people Of Wichita do not banker
for eXodustcrs, and never did. Wyandotte.
at first, met these fleeing blacks with shot
guns; Topeka raised 4 mob and tore down 4
building erected to shelter these destitute
people; Atchison would not have received
her boa.-!oad of these ex-,layes had they not
been landed on the sly: Kansas City and
Omaha have turned deaf ear to the cries of
these wanderers. then wherefore the howl
against wichita: Did Wichita howl over
Topckas mob. or Wyandottes shot-guns?
Bah. We are disguised with all this hypocrit-
ical cant about. aud lIgubrious prophecies
against. 4 town that has simply proved smart
enough to take care of herself.