Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-09-11
A HALT CALLED
Are Not Kansas Towns and Railroads to be
Permitted TO Work for Kansas

In the discussion of the railroad question
the Kansas City papers keep re-iterating, IN
confident tones, that Kansas is the legitimate
meat of tina. Missouri town. They claim
everything. That is al right and to be ex-
pected, but when the secretary of the Kan
sas board Of railway commissioners falls to
writing official orders and communications
in behalf of the Windy Wonder and against
the interests of Kansas towns the
EAGLE thinks il about time that some
BODY should take note of the fact Mr.. +.
j. Turner, secretary Of the Kansas railroad
commissioners, addresses letter to the gener-
al freight agent of the Frisco under the date
of June 1lth, in which he uses the following
language:
From the nature of those complaints and
the frequency with which they are coming
TO this board, II is presumed that your COM
pany is still endeavoring to place m en-
barge upon Kansas City business, on BUSH
ness coming 10 your line at connecting
points in this state, notwithstanding the fact
land YOUR attention has been called TO it,
that your company in so doing is making
itself Liable 10 heavy penalties under our
law.
With this letter for a text the Journal in a
column and half howls 'embargo." II
Mr.. Turner has such love for the interests
of Kansas City and Missouri he would do
well to stop drawing his salary from Kan
sas and go down to Missouri to live. If Mr..
Turner don't know it the EAGLE now tells
him that the Kansas extension Of the Frisco
road was largely built by Kansas money
and built directly in the interest of local
Kansas communities who didn't want to 60
to Kansas City, and that having thus ex-
tended aid these communities expected the
road would discriminate in their favor and
against Kansas City. The Frisco road is
not a Kansas City road and Mr.. Turner nor
no one else can make il Kansas City road.
II is not in competition with the Kansas
City roads, but in competition with Gould's
Missouri Pacific at this point. Do the bus
mess men of Kansas City and Mr.. Turner
expect Wichita can do wholesale business,
such as she is doing, and pay
local rates from Kansas City west
or by buying their goods in Kansas City:
Has it come to that pass that in order to do
the business of Kansas on Kansas soil that
our people will have not only Kansas City to
tight, but the board of railroad commission
srs and the legislature Of Kansas also.
And while upon this subject we want to
call attention of the people TO the fact that
the EAGLE in opposing maximum freight
laws last winter said such an effort was only
10 stop railroad building in Kansas that q
great city might be bull; up on our borders,
that such Law would rob every town of
Kansas of all chances of ever becoming
railroad cenisrs, placing them in a position
where they would be restrained OF the bene
fits Of competition and only that Kansas
City might grow. Kansas City will again be
on hand next winter urging the Kansas legis-
lsture to pass maximum freight rate bill.
Central and western Kansas will be on hand
demanding fifty more railroads and also
ready to set down on any man or party who
favors any law that will discourage the
building Of competing lines of railway into
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