Wichita eagle., 1888-07-08
DON'T FORGET.
MEDICINE WHICH WONT BE LIKED
But MUST BE TAKEN.
Blabbing Newspapers, Indiscrete Advisers,
and Whining Craekbrains. With
Few Indispatable Facts, to be
Remembers Alike by
Friends and by Her
Enemies.

was deemed of no little import TO Wichita
by the writer. Time will demonstrate the
wisdom or otherwise of the declarations
and deductions We desire to say some
more:
The bewailings and dispairing cries OF
the Tolerable and of the Commonplace, at
time of general depression, can do harm
only in so far as they may affect public
sentiment at the time, but not the final
outcome. 1t is the Unimportant Factor
VINO lays down and gives UP any enter
prise, and not he who wrought according
TO his faith. For the time being, there
fore, the Howier and Prognosticator
OF direful calamities and collapses
is to be deprecated and deplored provid-
ing he can't be summary squelched. A
bowler may retard the progress Of enter
prises, if he be numerous enough, and the
general progress, thereby, of community
be- for the time. embarrassed by reflex in
fuences. Wichita has some howlers who
doubtless will be quoted squealers who
are declaring that IF such and SUCH
things are not done, and that Immediately,
the cake of this community will be all
dough, etc. These never conceived an
original idea nor ever accomplished work.
They have grown and fatted, but upon the
efforts of others, and want more. As we
said they may be, and have indeed, been
quoted away from shome, but being no
bodies should receive no attention.
Nothing was ever gained from their
hurrahing in the past, and nothing need be
apprehended from their walls OF the
present. Bellyachers are never feared be-
cause of the force OF what they bring
about so much as for their numbers.
But there are another class who are
harder TO handle, and whom it is almost i'm
possible TO ignore; an enterprising class WHO
Jumped astride the swell of Wichita's tide
and rode into golden port with colors
flying, and making SO much noise over
their feat tn at some might have taken
them for the swell itself rather than the
rider These finding that the swell has
somehow ebbed, leaving them, though
still in the golden port. yet fat on their
bottoms, become frantic for another swell,
a bigger swell which might land them
higher up. To bring it on the conclude
that it is only necessary TO do something
big and costly. And they are willing to
put up their share if only their something
is adopted as the scheme. They therefore
appeal, appeal with a vehemence and
reckIessuess out Of all proportion
TO the state of the money market
The men TO whom they appeal appreciate
the full force of the logic and sometimes
respond so far as the immediate enterprise
in hand is concerned, hoping that the
other greater things promised by the appel
liant may follow in due course. But they
don't, and for the like reason that, with
the diamond mines down in south Africa
a diamond cutting establishment costing
a million dollars put up in Wichita would
be big thing, but not a profitable thing
In the main, these appeals only do harm
in that they tend only TO beget a spirit OF
diStrust aud desperation, and Ia that When
they are made through the newspapers
they not only reach those for whom they
were intended but thousands Of others who
not understanding them imagine they
smell big rat and still others who
being inimical use them as a text TO
convince others that such appeals are the
drowning mans straw, which has IN some
inexpIicable way become entangled with
tie last feather which IS breaking some
body's back
There is but one way to make such APP
the men who not only can comprehend
them, but who in the event of the schemes
beng such as meet their judgment, pos
sess also the ability to care for them and
to make them success. But when all
counter and misdirected influences and
potentiates have exhausted themselves:
Don't forget that Wichita TODAY. as an
eighteen year old city, stands unrivaled IN
wealth. in population and in business by
any city in the annals Of any country.
Don't forget that Wichita is without the
possibility OF a rival in a territory which
for vastness and richness IN many dlrec-
tions cannot he duplicated on the Ameri-
can continent.
Don't forget that her immediate surroud-
ings of dozen counties, comprise great
garden spot in the center Of a great valley,
which in agricultural productions and IN
broad and nutritious pastures, is the never
ending wonder and talk OF all visitors
from whatever state or country, consult
| ing domain in the midst of which Wich-
tia sits pre-eminent and without the pos
sibility of any successful rivalship.
Don't forget. that in taxable wealth, as
shown by the returns for the present year.
Wichita leads by millions OF dollars the
return valuations of every other city IN the
state, old or young, some of the older of
which contain the interests of great rail-
way corporations.
Don tforget, that Wichita has added more
property and wealth within the last fiscal
year ending June 80 than can be shown by
the sum total of the taxable returns made
| bv some of the towns who would make the
world believe that they might possibly
oyertake the greatest city west Of the Mis-
souri, river.
Don't forget, that il those towns OF Kan
sas, singled out by certain railroad COM
panies as possible rivals Of Wichita, at
some time in the future. should mort gage
their entire personal and real property TO
| the full amount of their taxable valuations
and then after giving up everything they
| had, should expend the money thus raised
| in securing enterprises for and in building
| up their towns, that all that could for such
amounts be secured wouldn't equal IN
dollars and cents what was added 10 Wich-
| tia within the year last past
! Don't forget, that notwithstanding the
crops of last season very largely failed and
| that in spite of the wide and almost uni
versal prostration Of business throughout
| the United States. so far the present year.
that the bank clearing reports o. the
entire country show from week 10 week
and month TO month that Wichita does
from two to three times the business of
the Oldest and largest cities il the state,
ranking as business point with old and
populous cities OF the east