Wichita eagle., 1888-12-25

| NIctUcE d warrior OF Stdl6SIldIl, 1ldu-
cier or town builder to scorn mere imita-
ton and to be original in conception,
bold in design and coura geous in exc
cution.
Who shall say that our men are not
bold swimmers III new sea, having
faith in themselves and confidence in
each other to find a landing and build a
city?
That which may be termed the inter
social relation of the individuals who
constitute the board of trade, the volun-
tary commingling of men of diversified
tastes and inclinations, education and
modes of thought. habits and business
interests, has been an educator and
ripened the thinking power, the reason
ing faculty of the entire membership
and the incipient thought-bud
has burst its bonds and blossomed
disclosing to our intelligence perfect
plan of original conception which. though
new at birth, bore the stamp of maturity.
Who after studying the results of our
board from year to year can not but re-
alize that there has been growth of in
dividual thought, personal power, an
awakening of conceptive intellect in the
! individual factors that make the board?
| May we not assert that this voluntary
association has of itself been liberal and
| practical education to those who have
enjoyed the relation?
May we not assert that our combined
power is as the fable of the bundle of
| twigs that separate and apart from each
other were broken by child, but bound
| together, interlocked with each other,
| defied the power of Sampsoni
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the wall that girts rs, the impregnable
fortress that enables us to withstand the
| batteringram of an enemy. as well as
shields US from the poisoned arrows of
obloquy and the assaults of the news
paper guerrillas who fancy that our
| triumph is the overthrow of their ham,
| let.
The board of trade, the citizens of
| Wichita, every enemy to our growth,
can not but know that 1885 is to produce
on our part labor, labor, labor, else we
sink. The town life is completed; the
city life bnt entered on. Having thrown
down the gauntlet and proclaimed that
we are city, that we have passed the
bounds of youth, that we have attained
manhood, henceforth we must give bat
tie as men, as veteran soldiers; not as
| boys or raw recruits.
Who can doubt but that we will do it:
Who can doubt the issue: Who doubts
! the power Of power:
I Time and ] against the world, was
maxim of Old Thinker.
Time and the board OF trade of Wichita
against all foes will bring prosperity to
all its people, wealth beyond the dreams
of avarice, taxable millions to the state.
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from all over the country to herald our
greatness. Fashionable as it now is to
berate Wichita, the day is at hand when
the efforts of the board of trade" will
break the clouds that o'erhang us and
gloriously cleaning IN our sky, casting
its radiance over the plains of Kansas
and the land beyond, shall be seen the
Gun Of Austerltz."
The year 1889, if we do our duty. will
discover a comet to the commercial
sands looking westward, an empire to
the world with Wichita as its virtual
head and commercial capital.
The year 1883 is milestone in our city
life. It chronicles an area in our his
tory. To other towns and cities it is as
last year, and VIII be as next year. To
of the year, casting aside every private
act, every individual success and per-
sonal interest: considering only the
achievements of the board OF trade as a
unity, would be readable as well as in
structive iteratvre and many who have
eaten of the fruits of this united labor
but little know of the disappointments,
the doubts, the sacrifice and labor that
the year has chronicled. We NAV
change a quotation little TO express our
meaning, VIZ:
The boards triumphs live in brass;
Its disappointments we write II water.
Standing under the lengthening
shadow OF me year that is going; reced-
ing with its hopes and fears: smiles and
tears, its calming and fretting,
its remembering and forgetting,
its failures and triumphs; look
ing hopefully and with confidence
to the year 1889, we again say, MERRY
christmas to the Board of Trade" All
hail to the self reliant band of whom it
will be said when the food Of years shall
bear them down life's fitful stream:
THE Crusades knew not drawer knights
Than these brave men before her walls;
The noblest in the old time fights
Matched not the hum blest here that
falls
These civic wars that bring not pain;
| Where pride is slain, where self Is slain,
Where, when al last the gates are down,
You have not burned, but built town"
al hall three hail 10 the united band
whose motto well may be;
Believing ruin 20 one misfortune 70 all,
In harmony triumph, in unity fall.
Be the bright banner that shelter Us all,
As proudly we march at the head Of the
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