Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1886-09-02
DON'T MISS IT.
The Great Kansas Exhibition in Mis-.
souri,

The annual opportunity viii be afforded
the people of Kansas again this year to go
down into Missouri with their Kansas pro-
ducts to make a show which Kansas peo-
pie can see by following the Kansas exhi-
bitors down into Missouri, provided they,
the Kansans, pay the Miisourians stipu-
lated gate fee, and otherwise contribute to
the general success of this Missouri enter
prise. This is big thing for Kansas and
helps the ilissourians out. The only thing
that Missouri contributes in making up
this annual show is the salaried officers, if
we except the buildings and grounds for
which {. round rent is extracted from the
entry fees and the gate money paid by Kan
sans. The Kansas legislature 1T its next
session should make liberal appropria
ton of money to defray the expenses of
this annual Kansas exhibit, made in the
state of Missouri, and for the benefit of the
town which honored our state in accepting
our states name. Year after year have
the people of Kansas City put themselves
out in filling these Offices and also to pro-
vide the necessary grounds on which the
Kansas farmers might make an exhibit to
the people of their own state. The legis
laturc should recognize that Kan
sas avoids a heap Of wear
and tear of ground through
this thoughtful and disinterested courtesy
of those Missourians who annually invite
us to make our show in their state, and such
kindness ought not to go unrewarded. Tue
EAGLE called attention to this gross neglect
a year ago and the year previous to that.
We might not again have thought of it but
for the fact of our receiving compliment
tary ticket signed by Kersey Coates and
Ed. H. Webster, which complimentary
ticket was accompanied by notice to be
published-of course complimentary, also
or, in the event we preferred to do so, to
write one Of our own AS the notice sent
didn't set forth the fact that the premiums
were to be paid by Kansas money, and as it
embraced no appeal to the Kansas legisla-
ture for an appropriation we preferred to
to write cur own notice. They also wanted
us to send them marked copy Of course
We wouldn't see Missouri even put to the
cost of a postage stamp in this matter Of
her annual exhibit of Kansas products.
Another little matter, hardly worth men
tioning, helped us remember the annual
Kansas show in the state of Missouri, and
that was a proposition to print a regular
advertisement. The advertisement at
the EAGLES regular rates came to-
eighty-on dollars The Missouri soci-
etys secretary wrote back that it
was just seventy-one dollars too big.
The society is no doubt right.
AS Kansas furnishes all the exhibits and
pays all the expenses it is nothing more
than fair that the Kansas papers should do
all the necessary advertising in sending
down paying crowd, and do this adver-
Using free In the future the EAGLE will
pay the society premium for the privilege
Of being the first paper in Kansas to re-
cieve their advertisement
The two railroads which operate daily
trains between Wichita and Kansas City !
will no doubt furnish reduced rates to eX-
hibitors and make corresponding cut on
The passenger rate, but we fear it will |
hardly pay them, as our past experience
and observation leads us to believe that the
people of this section are wanting in the
necessary breadth and enterprise of their
brothers of the Kaw and Missouri bottoms.
and that the Arkansas Valley will make an
Exhibit Of their selfishness by trying to
build up fairs at home and upon their own
soil, worthy the name and fame of not only
he Arkansas Valley but of the state.