Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-05-14
BUSINESS MEN ATTENTION!

A Be ard of Trade Meeting To- Night.
| There will bea meeting of the members
of the board of trade this evening at the
council chamber to which the business men
OF the city arc not only invited but earnest
ly urged 10 be present in full force. Col
lcges, academies, reformatories and institu-
:ions of like character, are all well enough
in their way and as auxiliaries to the life OF
rapidly developing city of importance.
but these do not furnish the thews Of a
| healthful commercial life nor the basis of a
| vigorous and expanding wealth. Glucose
and wind have had their day and served
| their purposes no doubt, and culture and
refinement will cmbelish and attract in the
future, but profitable employment Of large
numbers of men and women, especially in
adding value to natural and home produc-
tons are the kind of sinews most needed at
the present to interlace and strengthen the
commercial ties and interests of Wichita.
One manufacturing interest begels and fos-
tiers another. The largest and most pros
porous commercial cities are invariably the
possessors of the greatest manufacturing
interests. Towns often contain a speciality,
OF course, in some line, but the manufacture
ing Of the world is done in its cities. Union
stock yards, depots, federal and municipal
buildings are desieratums or needs but not
the urgent, exigent essentials TO Wichita's
continued and future prosperity. The
pressing requisite is labor and its monied
result, Is employment and its creative wealth
For every hundred steadily employed ex-
perts in any line of manufacture or pro-
duction can be counted for the town where
they are employed, not only thousand ad-
ditional people but sustained population
whose life and savings become interviewer
with every other interest, calling and pro-
fession of such town. These observations
may seem but axioms to the average bust
ness man but all must confess that they are
often lost sight of. Ii is not the machine
shops and factories which prove of the first
importance, per sc, but the sustained labor
afforded by them, that counts for prosperity
1t is not the machinery and building of the
EAGLE which is of value to Wich-
ita but the forty-two men and
boys employed by if and the
results of their labors. five can, as bus
ness community, by coming together to-
night, at the council chamber, secure an in
terest which viii give employment to five
hundred individuals in Wichita, it would be
a grave mistake not to do so. OF course our
city is the best point in Kansas for the in
vestment Of money in any of the lines of
commerce or manufacture, and it may be
equally true that no furt her inducement
ought to be necessary 10 secure every such
enterprise coming in this direction, but
that fact will not warrant the
neglect of an effort to secure big thing that
might not otherwise come to the state at all
Wichita has as live set of business men rs
as any city of its size in America can boast,
and there is not bit of danger tha. they
will be swept off their feet by any blast of
;weetened wind or by an avalanche of
glucose" The man, firm or corporation |
hat can beat Wichita is welcome to; there |
ore let every man who has large business |
interests at stake be present tonight and see
md hear, and, If necessary, take hand