Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-05-05
CALLED TO AN ACCOUNT.
The Eagle Charged With Some IN
pleasant Things.

The question of new railroad is the alb
sorbing topic of conversation with our peo-
pie. The proposition Is laid down and ac-
cepted by all that We can get road if the
citizens of Harper will "work together"
This they neglect and refuse TO do with n
unaniiDity that is startling. Committees
are appointed TO rush over the country and
they come back with favorable report only
TO find that one or two "leading" men of the
place have made up their minds that that
particular road is not the road they want
They communicate their doubts and fears TO
a disin;erostcd foreign journal with large
and mighty influence and this great oracle
proceeds to sit down o. Harper and Harper
county and says we shall take mythical
bob tailed Jerk water branch, existing only
in the chimerical decisions arising from the
disordered brain of the potato raiser of the
Cow Skin, or be forever deprived of
railroad communication with the outside
world. Now We are willing TO fall down
and worship ST the shrine of the Almighty
Marsh; We are anxious TO debsse ourselves
in order to make an eagle roost of all our
people; we are willing that the lnfallible
Twenty whose judgment ~ is law and
whose word Is gospel shall dictate what We
shall have, but when they presume so far as
TO say what we shall not have, then we kick
IL has always been our firm belief that
had /; no; been for Murdoch and the EAGLE
Harper would have secured the Fit. :. Il w.
The same tactics are being employed now.
And yet through all the EAGLE declares it
wants communication direct with Harper.
Perhaps this may be So but if Mr.. Murdoch
is friendly with Harper, he is like the mule
that kicked the lrishman. he has s-poor
way of showing his friendship. We do not
bal, . no. l. I. h., L.
OF " ichita can keep n road from coming
here, though II msy be delayed. Nor
do We believe that ii Is their object to do SO,
only they desire to dictate when and how
the road shall come. We have no obiec-
tions TO this. provided they will say it shall
come at once. But this they do not do |
They put oil the time for building two
years and apportion TO Us road that does
not exist, and in all human probabilities |
never viii. We refer 10 the road Cener-
ally known as the Cottonwood Davis |
line" II it were coming, or any proba- |
bility that il would ever come, We would |
not say word. Bu, there is not. and We |
believe in taking something thst is within |
cur reach rather than search in the dark |
for something that does not exist.
That two parallel lines viii be built is i'm |
possible. Il is out of reason and NONSENSE |
cal To suppose case Of the kind.
Now if the EAGLE would tell the truth |
about these roads as it knows il, there would |
probably be a dry bone matinee. But the |
EAGLE's claws are bound. Murdoch knows |
more of railroad matters that he can tell, |
snd more than he dare tell. Still he does |
not know nearly the whole of the truth.
Had not selfish private interests prevented. |
we would have had a road to Wichits before /
now. Ii the same evil does not scnin come |
in our way. we can have a road before the /
first of next observation-disclosures Graphic
The spirit of the above, aside from
its personal bearing. seems to us 10 be |
q little harsh and calculated 10 engen-
der feeling that ought not to exist.
The EAGLE has tried to be fair aud
straight and honorable. Ii the above
is true reflex of the sentiment of any |
number of Harper's peo-
pie our readers will at once see tba,
and assurances would be
wasted. We take it that Harper
wants road from Wichits. or by way
Of Wichita But the road they waat
Is neither any branch of the Santa Re
Dr. of the Southern Kansas, or OF any
plug line constructed by any comhi-