Wichita eagle., 1886-10-17
WICHITA AS A MANUFACTURING CITY.
A Few Thoughts Upon Subject Which
UppcrmOst in Many Minds.

companies proposing any special line OF
manufacture, upon the ground that any
mandatory that could not succeed with
out being SO bolstered could not live in any
| event Nine times out of ten where a COM
| munity gives bonus for the establishing
of manufacturing interest that commu-
nifty is either swindled out of their money
or are left with an elephant on their hands.
The kind of factories which succeed are
only such as grow up under legitimate
demand for the products of such factories
which demand must be supplied at rates
which will effectually shut out distant com
petitors. The last kind Of Industries, how
ever small the plant, never fail of develop
ment and success
The greatest commercial cities of any
country are the greatest manufacturing
cities of that country. People ordinarily
do no not understand that proposition to
be true. but statistics nevertheless show
that it is true. The products Of the class
cial life consist Of the thousand and one
little attachments and component parts of
what civilization has determined as neceS-
sites. These are found upon Tie walls,
on the tables about our homes, in our
shops, our Offices, in fact, everywhere
Their name is legion and they are the pro-
ducts of the labor of men, women and
children in commercial cities and the pro
duction of which hinges upon other and
like industries which flourish only with
life To illustrate, take
for instance wholesale manufac-
tory OF harness and saddles and
how many auxiliary manufactures
are necessary to produce the buckles, the
tacks, the brads, the buttons, the loops and
the dozens Of other necessary and orna
mental articles made of iron and brass for
that trade alone. Take a wholesale
grocery and following it are the canning
establishments. the timer to make the
cans, the man to make the boxes, the
printer to make the labels, etc. the factory
TO make the crackers, and lis boxes, labels.
etc. the factory to make the candy, its
boxes. labels, ETC.. the packers for the
meats, the makers of the soaps, ETC., etc,
all hinging on the single line of wholesale
grocer. So must all other lines of COM
mercial interests and commercial life to
tell about which would employ columns of
space and detail
Now the line of manufactures which |
the average citizen cries out for and is will
ling 10 give a bonus to, is some specially,
Df either wood, leather, iron, glass, brass or
steel Every city depending upon either
,f the classes named. is ever at the mercy
IF fluctuating markets. The average
own or city which depends on
MY speciality made Of woolen. cottons,
ilks, iron, wood or glass, arc down at the
leel. dead and in the suds of credit sys-
en- nine months Of every year, because
ne market for either their raw material
II for their manufactured article is flat
rom ovcrproduction, want Of demand,
" other cause, while commercial cities with
heir lines Of manufacture. which depend
N thc demands Of commerce in tie every
lay necessities of life. flourish continually. |:
ihc specialties, besides, generally employ
nature male experts only, while the lines
i manufacture which tail on to or hinge
lpoa commercial life, employ men, women
ad children the year around, who VIII be
ound comfortably housed a: light labor in
.Ieat blocks OF buildings
Briefly, It has bcen Cor these reasons that
he EAGLE has opposed the Offering of /,
,onuses to Individuals and companies who
ave proposed pu,ting in plants of special
in Wichita Nobody can I
all to understand that if by the ofcr of
'olus Wichita could secure factory en-
.loyiug five thousand men of families. in
producing thermometers and the factory
hould fill because OF The absence Of q de-
nand for orr spt cia.ty, that Wichita would
- "NASt t-lau II SltN
lever secured the thermometer factory, or [
vor induced the five thousand experts 10 &,
'ring their families TO the city. Upon the
'tEer hand nobody can fail to understand Il
hat if some man should star, M au estab-
ishncat costing ten dollars 10 n.anulacture I
,og-nosc rings 10 meet 81 existing demand {
rom farmers ard the demand should have {
,rowu until his factory was worth
million OF dollars and emp,oYod s
i've thousand men, that i. woald De a big
hing for Wichita as lorg rs corn grew {
nd hogs faitcaed.
These reflections are cal!el out by the t
act that we find several Of Wichi;a's litie q
interests are grown; an, !;
eveiop;ng rapidly in rosponse so,ely 10 sn t
lcreasing demand for .hcic y duets. IS
here are twenty or thizty oS.a5 isila,a rs j
ere which have been Doubling tbeic ca
acities and tic number Of men empla yeSi. b
ae increasing and growing demand comes il
{ our growing and spreading commercial IL
fe ard interests And they viii grow 4
I'll increase And these are the class OF d
the EAGLE will endeavor TO 81
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