Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-05-22


Friends, good morning; one 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 il Is. and which guarantees a
successful future 10 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-
lions of all. Wichita, upon the other
hand. is without n rival or even the
possibility of rival.
But, the time has come when the
conservation OF steady development
renders il imperative that our business
interests should reach out to embrace
more than the immediate environ
disputed supremacy as a commercial
point must be changed TO that of
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, 10 4 comprehensive degree.
must take the place of a former exclu-
sive retail traffic. No other agency
viii so surely contribute TO this effort
as a 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 anv city
west of ST. Louis. if we 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 viii
strive to be.
That all this is thoroughly under
stood by the enterprising business men
of this city ii Is hardly necessary to
aft rm in the face of the columns upon
columns of their own declarations
found in this paper.
The aim of THE DAILY EAGLE,-all
of its 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 il, 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 ener-
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-
plisbed.
One word more, and that of per-
sonal nature: II has been our life's
ambition to stand al the head of a daily
journal. For this. in the early days of
this city we severed ties which bound
very strongly. left a people who not
only symRathized with and sustained
US for long term of years, but who
honored us oyer and again above our
dt-tiif. 10 tDtlls 10 ioND III whose
future We thought we saw some of the
grand possibilities now being realized
For six years past we have had laid
away in boxes the necessary extra ma
terial for a daily paper, awaiting the
suspicious hour when the demand
should warrant the venture. In this
we have been seconded by a majority
of the members Of the Kansas and
Missouri Associated Press who held
the telegraph franchise for us against
all offers and al schemers. With the
majority of these men we have been
laboring, in our humble way, for a
quarter of n century TO make Kansas
what she is. And, although our new
daily must inevitably trespass upon
fields hith erto occupied by them, it is
a satisfaction TO know that il is done
not only with their full consent, but
that they have persistently refused all
others the privilege.
Now, filled being the modest grasp
of our ambition. filed the hands and
head of THE DAILY EAGLES business
manager, filed, we hope, will be the
measure of the expectations of the
good people of Wichita.
Again. good morning.