Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-09-04
QUIET WORD OR TWO,
About q Matter Which Concerns Every PROP
erty Holder Of Wichita.

and ultimately. That way is more and in
dependent lines of railway. These PROPOSE
tions have not only been conceded but our
people have gone to work in the only way
they or anybody else could TO secure the
necessary additional roads. That the
lines decided upon are the most
feasible and best beyond any doubt nobody
questions. The whole matter bad been sys- |
temstically discussed and made plain.
There was not single dissenting voice.
The simple discussion of them and
their evident feasibility and practicability
gave the town new impetus. Nobody
thought of anything better, nobody offered
anything better. and nobody now proposes
anything better. Not only did every man
in Wichita concede that the proposed lines
pointed out and discussed were just the
thing and that their construction would re-
suit in building up here the largest city in
the state, but every railway manage
ment in the state was affected by
the discussions and communities hundreds of
miles distant took immediate steps to inden-
tify their interests with these proposed move
ments. There was no selfshness, no under
work, no schemes of any character or color
involved in getting up the organization to
secure just what everybody was in favor of.
As for the men composing the organizations
living here, their all, now and prospectively,
is centered in Wichita, and their only aim
and object was 10 secure the construction of
these roads at the earliest day possible To
this end they one and all stand ready to step
aside at moments notice if anybody or set
of men will come forward with better plan
or better guaranty. But why this fight
of the Beacon, we have been asked dozen
times We don't know and We don't care
When the necessity for organized and ener-
getic efforts was being discussed and point
ed out by this paper the editor of that paper
was in Washington trying to get new post
master and none of his hands were so fool
ish as to attempt to antagonist enterprises
which were backed by such unanimity.
Why that paper didn't open the fight i'm
medistely upon his return may be found in
the fact that special friends of his wanted to
figure in the construction Of the north and
south road and they could not determine
whether they could or not until they had
made trip off somewhere to see somebody.
They presumably failed. If they
didn't and now can within
themselves or by the backing
of any friends they have secure the con-
struction of any of these roads more speed
lily and more surely than the way it is being
done, we have said and now say again that
the incorporators of either or of all the lines
stand ready at moments notice TO turn
over everything into their hands without the
charge Of cent for the expense already in
CURED. What these men want and what
Wichita wants is the roads and the roads
only. For these reasons, and these reasons
only have we failed TO answer the long
drawn out, thin, senseless and one-sided
bubbles of the Beacon, and only
say what we do now not
in answer to anything it has been getting off
but because some not posted as TO the ami
mus of the fight might think there was
something wrong. And anybody who says
that these projected enterprises do not stand
all upon the same footing either knowingly
lies or else he don't know what he is talking
about. They are all based upon the propo-
sition Of bond-stock subscriptions and first
mortgage bonds, except SO far that each of
the companies or corporations have agreed
to raise among themselves the necessary
few thousands Of dollars TO pay for surveys
and preliminary expenses, and to do it
whether it is every returned by the
construction or acquiring companies
or not. The Fl Scott and Little
Rock company, with reference to the south
east road. the Missouri Pacific company with
reference to the northwest road and the b.
& N. company with reference to the north |
and south road have all said the same thing
in substance, and the encouragement of the
one has been, in fact, the encouragement Of
the Others. As for the two last roads, neither
can construct new lines into the territory, |
but they can acquire roads. Both are
heartily ane apparently earnestly in favor of
the two last mentioned lines. To say why |
lie unnecessary. These roads, if
built at all, they will be |
built just exactly as nearly all roads ex-
cept branches have been built in later years,
and just as the Fort Scott was built, just as
most extensions are built, and that is, by |
sections of five end ten or twenty or forty |
miles each, each section based on the sub |
scription of townships, cities and of coun-
ties, and on the mortgage value of each fin
ished section. If Wichita should never ge-
but thirty or forty miles of each line con-
structed they would support her present i'm
portance, but the completion of all will make
her the grandest city in the state if not in
the west
This is written in answer to the question
put to us dozen times yesterday and all
drawn out by criticisms, which, if unexpect-
q, have not come from an unexpected
source. We have no fight to make over the
matter and will have none of it, for the sim
pie reason that no fight is necessary; for all
the newspapers in America cannot convince
the great majority of the business men of
this town that these roads are
not only vital necessity but
further, that the only feasible
plan for securing them has been adopted
and is being energetically prosecuted. If
they succeed all will be benefited alike, if
they fail those who make spretense of fight
ing them will be hurt just as badly as those
who worked conscientiously for them.
Abuse of and slams at the editor of the
EAGLE hurts nobody but he, with every
leading business man in town, so far as b
has heard m expression, sincerely hope
that for the sake of the moral effect that
Wichita would be found unanimous in favor
Of these enterprises when the ballots should
be counted out. And now that these friends
have been answered We further say that by no
word or oct viii we become 9 party TO dis
cussion or newspaper wrangie which would
feopardize or even weaken the effect of
unanimous or harmonious result. For this
reason only have we neglected to publish
the several communications and articles sent
ia within the past few days. In the mean
time If there Is any better thing that can be
done the EAGLE will be heart and soul in
Its support come the scheme or help from
whatever source.
Mr.. G. Wood Davis says the "EAeLE's
myriad Inca" We never knew before that
three made myriad. The EAGLE is advo- s,
eating just three new lines, no more and ten
thousand people in Wichita say that three !
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