Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-09-04
WINDY WONDER.
xaasas City Squeals Loud and
Long.
The Eagles Policy That Kansas 6us'
ness Should Be Done on Kansas
Soil Hurts.
The conglomerate Consolidation o
Towns at the Ksw's Mouth
Tells Gould That He is not
Submitting to Kansas
Cisy's Tolls.

The independent stand taken by the
DAILY EAGLE in the interest OF Kansas has
been heard from and its many articles point |
ing out that It was not vet too late to secure
the transaction Of Kansas business on Kan
sas soil, are beng felt not only throughout
the state but the Windy Wonder las be
come thoroughly alarmed. The logical fact
urged all spring and summer by the EAGLE
that the construction of railway lines into
the interior of Kansas, Independent of Kan
sss City, and its pool, would result in trade
centcrs in Kansas, is bearing fruit, and the
sheer that the time for such move had long
past has been changed to q cry of alarm.
True Leavenwortb, Atchison and other
Missouri river points attempted to
hold their own as against
Kansas City for the controlling Of
Kansas trade. and true they were downed in
the fight, but the fight inaugurated by the
EAGLE is essentially a different contest on
a widely different field of battle. Leaven-
worth, Atchison and Lawrence were situat-
ed right under the shadow of Kansas City,
and it was hand TO hand contest. The
present battle is to be fought out on the
broad, rich, open and growing interior OF
the state, with our own base of supplies, as
well as that of the enemy in our
own possession. Kansas, Kansas
people and Kansas towns have
only TO be true TO themselves, to their own
homes and Interests and the contest cannot
be doubtful one.
The Kansas City papers, both Times and
Journal, appear Sunday morning in double
headed editorials calling upon Kansas City
TO save herself from the impending danger.
They call upon Gould and appeal to the
state of Kansas. The Times publishes Q
railroad map of the state, showing that the
Missouri Pacific system is hauling off Kan
sas products without first submitting them
TO Kansas City tolls. A committee consist
ing of Holden, Underwood, Bullene and Mum
ford were appointed to appeal to Mr.. Gould,
VIII kltll ludt hniAchc le SiviAk $HsoVS
per mile for extensions OF his roads and If
Kansas City wants to hitch on, be will con-
slider the matter after they have rendered
him a like amount on feasible route.
To show the arrogance, the gall, and how
surely the Windy Wonder considers Kan
sas within her grasp, we quote from The
Times:
The Missouri Pacific lines, as proposed
and as already built, are calculated TO carry
business around rather than 20 and through
this CITY. The Missouri Pa
cife territory in Kansas rightfully belongs
touS 1: is clearly in the in
terest of Kansas that there should be here 9
great commercial center. The prejudice
which hes been worked up by few hostile
newspapers, has given rise to numerou:
railroad building enterprises, all OF which
contemplate Kansas City's injury. 1t was to
meet this emergency that some of our mos,
alert business men insugurated the move
ment for line connecting with the great
Missouri Pacific system in Kansas.
The Times takes occasion at the very out
So. to warn the people of Kansas City
against the stereotyped argument that rail-
roads must come here anyway, because they
cannot afford TO do otherwise.
Kansas City must encourage Mr.. Gould to
hurry up. Nothing in the future is surer
than that Kansas City is TO be gre at me-
tropolis. bat there may arise circumstances,
which, il neglected, may materially hindei
and retard our progress.
See TO il that no part of our trade is divert
ed by unfavoraole railroad building.
For city and a paper which have ig-
nored all that the EAGLE hiss heretofore said
on this subject this opening is little fran
tic. But in another and a much more
lengthy article in which the correspondence
between the committee and Jay Gould is
given in full, the Times further says, and
we cannot quote the whole, but the princi-
pal points:
The fact that the Missouri Pacific was
building up q system in Kansas, indepen-
dent of Kansas City, and calculated to d.
vert Kansas CITY trade, being brought 10 the
attention Of prominent business here, q
committee was appointed TO go 10 New
York and confer with Mr. Jay Gould, with
the view of securing for this city its share
Of the benefits TO be derived from the new
railroads of his system. As will be seen
from the map, projected lines will still
further cut into Kansas City's natural ter
ritory.
A prominent business man said yesterday:
"kansas is organizing about one railroad
company day and not one in ten points to
Kansas City," There is
a great deal Of mischief for Kansas City in
the disposition in Kansas TO work for the
upbuilding OF towns in that state"
In their letter TO Jay Gould the Kansas
City committee cheekily says:
We claim for Kansas City the right, by
natural location and by her present achieve
ments and the facilities and Inducements she
already possesses for the drawing of trade,
and by the promise she gives of greater
things TO come, TO be the mistress of the
trade of Kansas and the contiguous regions.
Kansas City is the legiti-
mate and acknowledged headquarters Of the
trade of that section, and we ask further
that Kansas City be treated as the virtual
eastern terminus Of that portion of your
system"
To this presumptuous and sumptuous doc
ument Mr. Gould writes as follows:
Gentlemen: / am in receipt of your
favor of this date. Ii is hardly worth while
for me 10 engage in discussion as to the
actual or relative importance of Kansas
City AS trade center"
81 will say that, in making our extensions
in Kansas, the people are aiding us to the
extent of about $4,000 per mile; and 1
would suggest that, IL your people should
make an approximate offer, it would be most
likely TO secure the result you desire"
The committee in making its report TO the
Board of Trade, say that they had several
interviews with Mr.. Gould, that be didn't
appear overly anxious to dump his freight
off at Kansas City when he could Just as
well haul it on 10 the east, etc. or in the
language of the committee:
Lacking direct connection with these
lines the current of their trade does not now
TOW with facility TO Kansas City. This con-
dition is not particularly obnoxious TO the
Missouri Pacific company, as il enjoys q
longer haul from traffic with moro eastern
outlet. Hence it is, perhaps, too much TO
expect that the status quo will be first dis
tribUted by that company"
Kansas CITY might just as well understand
first as last that her presumption of owner
ship so far as central and western Kansas
are concerned, is obnoxious in the highest
degree, and that the territory which has
largely furnished that upon which Kansas
City has fattened, proposes to look after its
own interests in the future without reference
10 what results such work may have upon
the interests Of town in another''state.
BIG SWEET POTATOES.
Butler county proposes to contest for the
supremacy with Sedgwick in the matter of
farm products. Mr.. w. II. overman, whose
splendid farm is in Pleasant township, But
Ter county, lays upon our table sweet po-
tato of the Herman variety which be chal-
ienges any Sedgwick county farmer to beat.
1t measures two feet aid four inches in
ength ano he slyly remarked that it would
have grown Longer buf tho thing ran aou;nef