Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-07-15

LOOK at the nSureS and then lm2Slue eiio
superabundance Of gall and cheek. In
capital, in cash, in deposits, in loans and
discounts, in fact, in al that goes TO con-
stitute banking these four Wichita banks
lead Huschinson's showing by from three
to five times. With all the banks of both
cities given. Wichita would be from five to
ten times as great. Allthe cash that Hutch
inson had in her banks on the same day
that Wichita made her returns on her four
banks named, was one hundred aad fifty
four thousand dollars, as against upwards
of a million of cold dollars in the tour
Wichita banks Talk of GALL Talk OF a
town that borrows her banks dry! The
entire deposit OF Hutchinsons four big
banks, according to the four big oaths
made by their four big presidents, amounts
to less than four hundred thousand dol
lars, as against nearly two millions in the
four Wichita banks, which had according
to the News been borrowed dry. And so
on through with all the other items; the
tables are there vouched for, and sworn
to, examine them, reader, for yourself.
This is the first instance in which the
EAGLE ever made a comparison between
Hutchinson and Wichita and will proba-
bly, be the last There is in fact no COM
parison nor chance for one in any direc-
tion, nor never has been. This one would
not have been made but for the
unbounded egotisn and cheek
of the reply made to our
last Sundays article. The fact that not a
week passes that the News does not con-
tain some fling at or or invidious COMPARE
son of Wichita cuts no figure with Us, and
never has. So persistently has the News
kept up this style of racket that many OF
the newspapers of the state were led TO be-
lisve that the racket was mutual, but an
examination of our files show that outside
of a harmless April joke the name OF
Hutchinson has appeared but very few
times in over two years, and then IN a
complimentary way. We have nothing
against Hutchinson or her people-hope
that they may prosper and thrIv9-for
Wichita can never make q great central city
unless at least twenty TO fifty towns IN
southwest Kansas become as great and
greater than Hutchinson IS today; but
this talk Of Hutchinson being a rival, in
the future, is just as great nonsense as the
same talk was when INDUCED in by the
founders of that town, twelve, fifteen and
eighteen years ago, and not only Hutchin-
son. but everybody knows that this Is
nOuSeSe.
In conclusion so far as the claims OF
Hutchinson are concerned, the people OF
Wichita and the EAGLE willingly and with
pleasure concede that Hutchinson is a
right lively, go ahead city, in possession OF
many enterprises and industries now, and
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Hutchinson is the largest town in the
upper Arkansas valley, with undoubted
good chances of holding her own in the
future with Garden City, Dodge, ETC.
that without any peculiar advantages as
to location, the enterprise Of her citizens
has counted where others failed; that
while Hutchinson is not SO solidly and
substantially built as Arkansas City, Wei
! lington, Winfield, Emporia or Newton, that
| she probably has greater populatllo than
either OF the cities named but, when II
comes to comparing Hutchinson to WITCH
tia as TO population, as TO wealth, as to
manufacturing industries, as TO the vol
ume of business, as shown in the clearing
house report, as TO the banking and other
capital; as TO the value of taxable prop
erty shown by the assessors returns; or, as
to any other distinctive feature going to
make up or constituting a commercial,
Wholesale and manufacturing center,
there is no comparison possible, in truth
and in fact Wichita people know this,
Hutchinson people know this, and Kansas
people generally not only know this but
laugh at any pretended newspaper flip to
the contrary.