The daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1884, 1884-05-20
ALTHOUGH AND BUT THAT NOW.

ALTHOUGH AND BUT THAT NOW.
Friends, good morning; ono and all,
good morning; here is your DAILY
EAGLE.
Although long delayed this greeting
is being responded 10 with that eager
promptness and hearty good will
which has made this fair, busy city
what it is, and which guarantees a
successful future to its first full -fledged
daily paper.
And, Wichita is going to be city.
Wichita is not only to be the city of
this greatest of great valleys, but
possibly, even probably, the city of the
State Of Kansas. The cities in this
State that lead Wichita, to-day, are
but few, and the shadow of each
falls upon its neighbor SO closely
as to hamper the growth and ambi-
tions of all. Wichita, upon the other
hand, is without. a rival or even the
possibility of rival.
But, the time has come when the
conservation of a steady development
renders itimperativc that our business
interests should reach out to embrace
more than the immediate environ
ments. The character Of Wichita's un-
disputed supremacy as commercial
point must be changed to that of a
commercial center, and the relation
she has heretofore borne to neighbor-
hoods and adjacent communities must
She now bear to surrounding towns
and cities. Wholesaling and manu-
featuring, to comprehensive degree,
must take the place Of former exclu-
sive retail traffic. No other agency
will SO surely contribute to this effort
as daily paper going out into the
stores, shops and Offices of the various
surrounding towns and cities, making
known our ability and facilities for
meeting all demands. Wichita is car
rying larger and finer stocks of goods
to-day than can be found in any city
west of st. Louis, five except Kansas
City. These advantages can in no 9TH
er way be SO constantly and effective
ly impressed upon the people whose
patronage we desire as by and through
such daily paper as THE EAGLE will
strive to be.
That all this is thoroughly under
stood by the enterprising business men
Of this city it is hardly necessary to
affirm in the face of the columns upon
columns of their own declarations
found in this paper.
The aim of The DAILY EAGLE.-all
of IFS best thoughts and energies, will
be devoted to the cultivation ola COM
munity of interests which shall include
Wichita first, and, secondly, the eight
or nine counties of this lower valley
which surround it, and which COM
poses, we verify believe, the fairest and
richest domain to be found on Gods
green earth. If such an aim, backed
by such faith, seconded by the cner-
gies of such men as are represented in
these columns, can make the proudest
city in this land, then, indeed, is the
work already more than half accom-
plished
Z One word more, and that of "A per-
sonal nature: 1t has been our life's
to stand at the head of daily
journal. For this, in the early days of
this city we severed ties which bound
very strongly, left a people who not
only sympathiZed with and sustained
us for long term of years, but who
honOrcd us over and again above our
deserts, to come to town in whose
future we thought we saw some ethe
grand possibilities now being realized.
For six years past we have had laid |
away IN boxes the necessary extra ma
terial for daily paper, awaiting the
hour when the demand
should warrant the venture. In this
we have been seconded by majority
Of the members Of the Kansas and
Missouri Associated Press who held
The telegraph franchise for us against
Ill offers and al schemers. With the
of these men we have been
aboring, in our humble way, for a
quarter of a century to make Kansas
what she is. And, although our new
laily must inevitably trespass upon
fields hitherto occupied by them, it is
. satisfaction to know that it is done
lot only with their full consent, but
hat they have persistently refused all
others the privilege.
Now, filled being the modest grasp
IF our ambition, filed the hands and
lcad of THE DAILY EAGLES business
manager, filled, we hope, will be the
measure of the expectations of the
rood people of Wichita.
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