Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-01-03
INDIAN TERRITORY.
Educational and Other Interests-The
Territory'S Future.

To the Editor Of the Eagle.
Worcester academy. of Ninita, with
135 pupils and a curriculum extending
from a kindergarten to the second year )
work in Latin and its usual accorApani-
ments is pretty near the high water mark
of educational achievement in the Indian
/ Territory up to date. Academies and
seminaries are numerous along the line
of the Missouri. Kansas & Texas railroad.
which runs north and south at this
eastern end of the territory; and in the
interior missionary zeal Is active for re-
claiming the aDOrigines by religious
and educational influences.
Territorial development goes on at a
slow paceIoOoms are known only by
the echoes which reach Us from Kansas
and Missouri There was talk of a
sorghum factory late IN the fall, To be
built BY parties from Kansas. but that Is
heard now no more. OF course native
capital and industry are at work and are
ON the increase sure. bat very siow-slOw
it must be until a system OF laws Is
adopted here which viii give adequate
security TO outside capital, till ordinary
banking insurance and exchange can be
effected promptly and with reasonable
security and economy. The enterprise
and the ambition of your Kansas COM
munities Is unknown here. The natural
advantages OF Ninita are easily
ahead of those OF Wichita-a soil
Just as fertile. more diversified
with an abundance OF coal and lead and
timber that the former city knows not
Of But there Is no hurry. no agitation,
no board of trade The Frisco may ex-
tend its trark TO Albuquerque ana put Us
on a trunk line, with an important
junction. to boot; and il may not; il Is a
matter of only a mild curiosity here.
We are not far from Kansas. but far
enough 10 have a radically different sort
Of people This country supports IT
people without calling for much labor on
their part: all are sure Of subsistence.
What !, the use. then. Of all the hurry
AMI worry OF those people up III Kansas:
They have not been obliged by droughts
and plaques and rigorous winters to
learn foresight. economy. enterprise.
They will not take the serious view q
things orr northern brethren take
Hence. II this territory Is TO be opened
il VIII have TO b. by outside pressure
not by INSIDE influences. Opened 1t must
be: Wichita needs II. Kansas City needs
H. ara tEGf A43sAtsttI'F - III tA44t- "
bear, viii outweigh the moral ard senti-
mental considerations somewhat III
vogue at present about justice 10
the Indians who have been swept from
the four corners of this country into the
Indian Territory, only To b. swept out.
nobody knows where. Wichita needs
the Indian Territory not merely for
trade. bat 10 draw supplies for her manu-
factories. Tie whoie Indian territory
needs - b. brought INTO communication
with Kansas. for II - only by intimate
commercial union with tins Territory u
diversified resources. VIII Kansas guard
against the faiiUre Of corn winch j.
almost her onIv resources--for corn j.
not king merely. ~ present corn +
Kansas. and no corn means no Kansas:
u least not the Kansas 81 cur hoges-
The policy to BE- adopted az bringing
about this union we take tie liberty -
should not leave thee people
out Of the account, az least overtures
-hOusd - made % them Il free from
their minds for the change II for no 0Tile.
purpose ~ that when u comes il NAV lse
-ettlesl on 9 just ara permanent iSasls.
J. II.